Halassa writes in the context of a broader research program he calls algorithmic psychiatry, which argues that mental illness ...

Countless YouTube videos feature pet birds singing and talking to their owners. Although it may seem like simple mimicry, ...

For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

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

When you get better at a skill-recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game-sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...

Researchers challenge the long-standing "neural independence" theory, showing that learning actually makes neurons more coordinated.

Age is more than just one number. While neuroscientists used to think of cognitive aging as a single trendline, they now ...

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

Researchers challenge the "efficiency" theory of the brain, showing that neurons become more coordinated and share more information as learning occurs.

After training neurons to play Pong, the team is back, and this time the brain cells are slaying demons with super shotguns.