By scanning brains while people actively took intelligence tests, neuroscientists discovered that high test scores are linked ...

When faced with a tricky maze task involving hidden information, humans instinctively toggle between two clever mental strategies: simplifying in steps or mentally rewinding. MIT researchers showed ...

Neuroscientists solve the "cocktail party problem," proving that neural amplification of vocal features like pitch and ...

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

Science Has A New Explanation For Why You Mishear People In A Crowd In A Nutshell MIT researchers built an AI model to solve ...

Elon Musk's startup Neuralink on Wednesday said part of its brain implant malfunctioned after it put the system in a human patient for the first time. Neuralink has built a brain-computer interface, ...

In 2021, a dish of living human brain cells figured out how to play the 1970s arcade game Pong. It took just five minutes for the collection of neurons, called DishBrain, to learn how to move the ...

Study authors Hunter Schweiger (left) and Ash Robbins. Imagine balancing a ruler vertically in the palm of your hand: you have to constantly pay attention to the angle of the ruler and make many small ...

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

What was your favorite toy growing up? This paradox claims that memory—and every other one—is just a random fluctuation.