“Both types of information are conveyed into neural signals in the brain and undergo neural processing in a similar way,” explains Takuya Sasaki, a professor at Tohoku University’s Graduate ...

“Any brain that we truly understand tells us something about all brains,” said Sebastian Seung, Princeton’s Evnin Professor in Neuroscience and a professor of computer science. “With the fly wiring ...

They do each of these things on the basis of sophisticated processing of sound, smell, touch and vision, organised and run by a brain composed of about 140,000 neurons—more than the 300 or so ...

Oct. 25, 2024 — Researchers have successfully developed an ultra-sensitive pressure sensor for electronic skin modeled after the nervous system in the human brain. This technology is applicable ...

Why ordinary people will follow orders to the point of hurting others remains a critical question for scientists—though some answers have emerged ...

Your brain can’t always tell the difference between a jump scare and a real threat. But what’s thrilling for some people can be harmful for others. Whether you’re in real danger or just ...

Signals from those muscles control robotic joints, so the prosthesis is fully under control of the user’s brain. The system enabled people with below-knee amputations to walk more naturally and ...

What Is a Brain Tumor? A brain tumor (also called an intracranial tumor) is a cluster of abnormal cells that grows in or around your brain. There are over a hundred types of tumors that develop in ...

A University of Kansas professor is on leave after a video surfaced of him musing to a class about lining men who don’t want to vote for a female president up against a wall and executing them.

co-senior author of one of the Nature papers and associate professor at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine. The fruit fly brain contains roughly 150 meters of wiring inside a ...

This story is one reason I don’t agree with many on the left that the University of Pennsylvania should have punished the law professor Amy Wax for what are clearly racist remarks about Black ...