A new study from the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics reveals a surprising insight into the operation of ...

No body, no dopamine, no problem. Scientists have successfully coached lab-grown brain tissue to solve a classic robotics challenge, proving that the will to learn is hardwired into our neurons.

How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much ...

A Harvard lecturer explains how to communicate your ideas so they are persuasive and unforgettable. The human brain is engineered to ignore most of what it sees and hears, according to the ...

A few blobs of lab-grown brain tissue have demonstrated a striking proof of concept: living neural circuits can be nudged toward solving a classic control problem through carefully structured feedback ...

A new ‘pop-up’ device developed by Professor John Rogers lets scientists map and manipulate activity in human neural ...

Researchers from Virginia Tech and Arizona State University recently revealed findings that tie two brain chemicals in bees to learning ability.

Researchers from the Universidad de Valladolid in Spain, the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Center and University College London used brain imaging studies to uncover how psychotic ...

Senior Lecturer in Neurosciences and Neurorehabilitation, Course Leader in the College of Health and Life Sciences, London South Bank University For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that ...

While it is fun to get toys that look like your favorite science fiction props, it is less fun when the electronics in them don’t measure up to the physical design. [Steve Gibbs] took a ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz have trained lab-grown brain organoids to solve a goal-directed task, ...