A popular technique for studying brain disorders, known as lesion network mapping (LNM), appears to have a fundamental ...

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

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

In 19th-century England, scientists were figuring out that certain parts of our brains were connected with certain parts of our bodies- but they came up with some terrible and misleading ideas that ...

More detailed brain scans reveal that the brain is more complicated than we thought! And cloned sheep might be healthier than ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

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 ...