Therefore, there must be zero of them.’” In recent years, research started to uncover how the human brain represents numbers, but no one understood how it handles zero. Now two independent studies, ...

In a discovery that redefines our understanding of brain function, scientists shared that individual human neurons are far ...

The 2024 Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry were seen as a sweep for artificial intelligence (AI) tools which, at their ...

A groundbreaking study using PET scans has revealed that autistic individuals have fewer brain synapses, directly correlating with more pronounced autism traits like social and communication ...

Recent research identifies 16 human nerve cell types, revealing complex sensory responses and challenging traditional views ...

Scientists have created brain ‘organoids’ that may be showing early signs of sentience. Should that give researchers pause?

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...

The data the team had access to represent an average of the subjects’ brain activity, so future research could look to map ...

In the new study, the team wanted to investigate whether screening movies during fMRI scanning could give any insight into how the brain’s functional networks respond to a series of complex audio and ...

the researchers identified brain networks and tracked how they related to a movie’s scene-by-scene content, including people, animals, objects, music, speech and narrative. For example, different ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

Researchers are using brain mapping to create a comprehensive understanding of the brain's intricate anatomy, much like Google Earth allows ... it holds the key to understanding the very essence of ...