WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, ...

A NIMS–Tokyo University of Science research team has developed an AI device with high information processing performance. This was achieved by recreating the so-called “edge-of-chaos” state occurring ...

Harvard and Google Research have released a startlingly deep dive into the human brain, mapping thousands of cells and millions of synapses in a poppy seed-sized sample of brain tissue. The effort ...

This post is in response to Consciousness and Integrated Information Theory By Paul L. Nunez PhD Does consciousness arise exclusively from complex interactions in brain tissue (materialism)? Or does ...

White matter gets its color from myelin, a fatty substance that insulates nerve fibers (axons). This insulation speeds up the ...

Our brains are wired to prioritize visual information for several fundamental reasons rooted in evolution and the way our sensory systems are structured. Evolutionary Advantage: For early humans, ...