Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the ...

Artificial intelligence was built to process data, not to think like us. Yet a growing body of research is finding that the internal workings of advanced language and speech models are starting to ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

A study from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows the brain has a distinct pattern of electrical activity as patients lose consciousness to anesthesia, according to Medical News Today ...

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

Imagine being able to inscribe a new pattern of activity into a person's brain that would allow for faster learning, or better treatment of psychiatric and developmental disorders such as depression ...

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 ...

How does your brain wake up from sleep? A study of more than 1,000 arousals from slumber has revealed precisely how the brain bestirs itself during the transition to alertness — a finding that might ...