The human brain is known to contain a wide range of cell types, which have different roles and functions. The processes via ...

A new package of papers examines the largest map yet of mammalian brain tissue. The map shows one cubic millimeter worth of ...

Many brain functions, particularly the senses, are similar across different mammal species.

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

Starting in the 1970s, researchers identified a beautiful system of specialised cells in the hippocampus (the brain’s memory ...

Why does the brain split visual spatial perception between its hemispheres? A new review by neuroscientists examines the advantages and trade-offs, and how the brain ultimately makes vision feel ...

With AI, “we are in the process not of re-creating human biology,” said Thomas Naselaris, a neuroscientist at the University ...