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Learning is often thought to require a brain. But learning is a broad concept that does not necessarily depend on neurons. If ...

The approach is solid, but the choice of learning rules, circuit architecture, and sparsity assumptions is not always sufficiently justified, and the model would benefit from a clearer mechanistic ...

A future in which AI can recognize a person's unspoken "that's not what I meant" response from brain signals and adjust its ...

Ancient human remains from Sulawesi suggest people were habitually using the psychoactive betel nut as far back as 25,000 years ago. Researchers found both unusual tooth wear and traces of arecoline, ...

More than two decades after scientists first sequenced the entire human genome—all 3 billion base pairs, of DNA code—the ...

A new study of 1,050 German students reveals that higher intelligence accelerates the development of metacognitive knowledge ...

Dinner last Friday was a hoot. Wine and conversation flowed; dishes were perfectly seasoned. The reward center of your brain ...

What are mirror neurons and how do they impact the way we move through our daily lives? Just like bodily movement, emotional ...

Neural activity during the performance of a stereotyped behavioral task is often described as low-dimensional, occupying only a limited region in the space of all firing-rate patterns. This region has ...

In her outstanding new book, Anna Heyward writes about her special relationship with Freddie and the trials and tribulations of separation anxiety from his point of view.