Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

As in larger brains, mouse visual cortex neurons with the same function cluster in columns. For over 50 years, it has been known that in the cerebral cortex of many mammals, neurons with the same ...

The barrel cortex, a specialised region within the rodent somatosensory cortex, plays a central role in the processing of tactile information derived from the whiskers. Recent studies have elucidated ...

A biologically grounded computational model built to mimic real neural circuits, not trained on animal data, learned a visual categorization task just as actual lab animals do, matching their accuracy ...

MIT researchers tested the “Spatial Computing” theory and found that brain waves organize neurons into flexible, ...

Neuroscientists have unveiled an engineered protein that lets them watch incoming signals wash over neurons in real time, turning what used to be invisible chemical whispers into vivid, trackable ...

Advances in technology have greatly accelerated scientific understanding of vision and the brain. Researchers can now ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category ...

Whether we've watched athletes do it or had the misfortune to experience it ourselves, 'choking' at an important moment when the pressure is on comes down to more than mental fortitude. For the first ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD involve a breakdown in our ability to separate signal from noise. The brain is constantly ...