The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...

In a new study, scientists successfully trained a brain organoid derived from mouse stem cells to solve an engineering benchmark known as the “cart-pole problem.” By applying weak or strong electric ...

For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

When faced with a tricky maze task involving hidden information, humans instinctively toggle between two clever mental strategies: simplifying in steps or mentally rewinding. MIT researchers showed ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

In 2021, a dish of living human brain cells figured out how to play the 1970s arcade game Pong. It took just five minutes for the collection of neurons, called DishBrain, to learn how to move the ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

What was your favorite toy growing up? This paradox claims that memory—and every other one—is just a random fluctuation.

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...