How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Artificial intelligence was built to process data, not to think like us. Yet a growing body of research is finding that the internal workings of advanced language and speech models are starting to ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown cluster of brain cells that may help explain differences in social behavior ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

A neuroscientist survey shows that 40 percent think it might be possible to preserve a human brain, potentially well enough ...

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

Have you ever met someone for the first time and felt as though they would be your best friend? This may be attributed to something deeper than just common interests; it may have to do with a ...

A neurologist explains why the brain strengthens much like muscle –\u00A0through challenge, rest and novelty – and how simple ...