Starfish, also known as sea stars, are equipped with an almost alien-like anatomy. Despite lacking a brain, blood, and ...

Graziano’s Attention Schema Theory posits the brain uses perception and memory to build consciousness as a simplified model ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

The role for which a dog was bred—say retrieving birds—is reflected in their brain structure, according to a study of 33 breeds.

For AI to truly be groundbreaking for neuroscience, Pavlick asserted, it is essential to understand how the machine itself ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

Understanding how the brain anticipates future states and transmits or reconstructs information remains a central challenge in neuroscience. This Research ...

The medical consequences of traumatic brain injuries are well-studied and affect millions of Americans every year. But one of ...

Medical education has always relied on physical models to teach anatomy, but traditional options, such as cadavers or ...

A new study reveals spaceflight physically shifts astronauts’ brains inside the skull, with changes lasting months after ...

Tourist spots don’t usually start at the knee and end in the brain, but this one does. The Corpus Museum in the Netherlands ...