This temporoparietal junction area is critical in processing information about others, such as understanding others' beliefs ...

A new study using intracranial recordings in humans reveals that the thalamus, particularly its higher-order regions, plays a central role in triggering conscious perception.

Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex organ operates using a code of electrical and chemical signals. These signals transmit through wires, nodes and networks to process and store ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

The mind is so deeply attached to the self that it can be unsettling to consider how much thinking we don’t do ourselves. Reports like this may trigger a sense of human defensiveness, a fear that the ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

And the brain accounts for 20% of the human body’s energy usage 2. Wielding a tool typically used for woodworking, the study’s authors divided a slice of frozen human brain ― from a 54-year ...

Nobody would argue that the fundamental biology of the human brain has changed in that far-too-short time ... our changing ...

Turing AI,' which operates more like the human brain. This new AI integrates certain processes instead of separating them and then migrating huge amounts of data like current systems do.

Memristors, or “memory resistors,” are the leading candidate for replacing synapses in a neuromorphic (brain-like) computer.

Having dedicated his career to understanding human brains, Eagleman shared his perspective in Newsweek's AI Impact interview series with Marcus Weldon.

Meghan McCain said Tuesday she’s “absolutely heartbroken” to learn that the recently passed government spending bill wipes ...