A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

The brain's ability to process information is known to be supported by intricate connections between different neuron populations. A key objective of neuroscience research has been to delineate the ...

New insight into decision-making pathways in the brain may impact the way engineers think about artificial intelligence, ...

For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ...

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

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant - to take just one example - the brain mentally starts a new "chapter" of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity.

The world has changed since 1664, when French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes first claimed the brain was responsible for the sensation of pain. However, a key question remains: How exactly ...

Adolescence is widely thought to be a time when the brain trims away excess neural connections, refining circuits through synaptic pruning. New research now suggests this view may be incomplete.