Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How the brain decides what’s real—and why it sometimes fails. It’s a foggy day in New York City. Through my computer screen, I ...

A study she led, recently published in Nature Communications, provides an intriguing answer: The brain evaluates the images it is processing against a “reality threshold.” If the signal passes the ...

Human brain cells are now interacting with computer systems, learning to play video games like Doom. Researchers have ...

Picture an apple, any apple. As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain activity that’s surprisingly similar to what ...

Researchers have created one of the most detailed virtual mouse cortex simulations ever achieved by combining massive biological datasets with the extraordinary power of Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer.

A few minutes beside trees or water can shift the brain into a calmer state. That change is not just a feeling.

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational ...

Pregnancy brain, often called “mum brain” or “momnesia”, refers to the common experience of mild cognitive changes such as forgetfulness, difficulty concentrating and mental fog during and shortly ...