Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped ...

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes—think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke—is a ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a ...

Whether you are heading to bed or seeking a midnight snack, you don't need to turn on the lights to know where you are as you walk through your house at night.

From Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s hand came branches and whorls, spines and webs. Now-famous drawings by the neuroanatomist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries showed, for the first time, the ...

After years of debate, scientists provided new evidence for the lifelong birth of human brain cells, which may inform future therapies for neurological diseases. “This gives us an important piece of ...

A high-speed “zap-and-freeze” method is giving scientists their clearest view yet of how brain cells send messages. By freezing tissue at the instant a signal fires, researchers revealed how synaptic ...

Recent technological and scientific advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, which is in turn ...

The work that we’re doing brings AI closer to human thinking,” said Mick Bonner, who teaches cognitive science at Hopkins.

A biocomputer harnesses biologically derived materials, such as DNA, proteins, or living tissue (e.g., lab-grown neurons), to ...

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By analyzing over 213,000 developing human brain cells, researchers show that many autism risk genes act through the ECM.