The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

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

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 ...

Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play primarily supportive roles for neurons. Astrocytes do handle debris around neurons ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

Scientists have found that the human brain understands spoken language in a surprisingly similar way to advanced AI systems.

By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...