Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost ...

Artificial intelligence was built to process data, not to think like us. Yet a growing body of research is finding that the ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways associated with differences in brain size and cognitive function A new study sug ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

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How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

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What if the key to being a better manager isn’t found in a new productivity hack, a different feedback framework, or a time management app—but in understanding the three-pound organ inside your head ...

A single damaged protein inside one brain cell may seem insignificant. Yet new research shows how that small mistake can ...