In 1979, Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the development of computer-assisted ...

A team of researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on a new graphene-based sensor design ...

Inaccurate metaphors about the mind can cause real harm, for instance leading educators to 'train' children like algorithms.

Two of the goals of that program are to generate a detailed wiring diagram for the complete mouse brain, and to map long-distance connections between different areas of the human brain.

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

The chip has allowed the patient to wirelessly control a computer, as demonstrated by his ability to play video games using ...

Paleoneurobiologist Emiliano Bruner explores the superpower of projecting images and words that has allowed us to make a ...

Music has the power to soothe the mind, promote brain health and bring people closer together. Singing, listening to music or making music all promote health.

While trying to conceive, learning and memory researcher Liz Chrastil took an unusual step: She became her own subject in a ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...

Scientists in Sweden led the study, published Thursday in Science. They found abundant signs of neural stem cells growing in ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement ...