Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells—much less a brain—can behave ...

The single-celled Stentor coeruleus learns through CaMKII-driven protein modification, mirroring mechanisms found in the human brain.

Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...

Artificial neurons could open a pathway toward computing that resembles human brain power.

A startup is experimenting with data centers powered by lab-grown human neurons, testing whether living cells can offer a ...

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

Brain study reveals memories stick when learning triggers a brief “energy emergency” in glucose-sensing neurons.

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can continue to develop new brain cells into old age. Researchers at Sweden’s ...

Study authors Hunter Schweiger (left) and Ash Robbins. Imagine balancing a ruler vertically in the palm of your hand: you have to constantly pay attention to the angle of the ruler and make many small ...

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

New research from University of Rochester faculty members Ralf Haefner and Adam Snyder and graduate student Shizhao Liu challenges a long-standing theory in neuroscience by showing that as learning ...