A dish of living human neurons has been taught to play Doom. No, it isn’t conscious or watching the screen the way players do. But it is learning to respond to signals in a way that produces ...

"If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, the Doom guy shoots." The post Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom ...

The human brain is one of the most complex structures known to science, containing billions of interconnected neurons. These ...

The human brain continues to surprise scientists. From how it learns to the fact that our brains glow, there's a lot we have yet to learn about the inner workings of the human brain. One especially ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

The FlySilicon Valley startup Eon Systems claims to have successfully uploaded the mind of a fly and placed it inside a simulated environment. The uploaded mind can control a digital body and respond ...

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are closely related to chimps, the slight differences in ...

The visceral substrate of selfhood is not an add-on to cognitive self-awareness; in many frameworks, it is its foundation. Neuroimaging shows the anterior insula co-activating with the medial ...

The free, family-friendly event on March 15 welcomes visitors for a day of fun and exploration, featuring games, art projects, lightning talks and demonstrations that highlight the wonders of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. It is not possible to understand the long-term future of artificial ...

If this presidential cycle has unified us on anything, it might be that cognitive decline is a hard thing to talk about. Both President Biden and former President Trump face plenty of criticism, ...