New findings reveal that certain areas of the brain influence how neurons transmit signals and control their range.

People given general anaesthesia fall into a coma-like state in which their memory and perception of pain are switched off.

MIT researchers built a biologically detailed AI model of a brain circuit that unexpectedly predicted a class of neurons firing before mistakes, later confirmed in decade-old macaque data. The finding ...

When I began my master’s program in cognitive science, an electrical engineering professor told us—rather arrogantly—that the soul is nothing but neurons firing. “You’re deluded if you think otherwise ...

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while ...

In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...

For more than a decade, neuroscientists had recordings from monkey brains learning to sort visual patterns. They had analyzed ...

To stay in balance, the brain depends on two types of neurons: Excitatory neurons (in white), which increase activity, and inhibitory neurons (in black), which damp down signals. Scientists have now ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...