New research from the University of Chicago challenges long-held beliefs about how synaptic plasticity contributes to memory and learning. As animals encounter new experiences, the connections between ...
Memristors, or “memory resistors,” are the leading candidate for replacing synapses in a neuromorphic (brain-like) computer.
MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults ...
A new model of brain metabolism – the most complex ever generated –shows how altering key chemicals could restore aged cells ...
Scientists have been developing and refining methods to accurately measure the age and health of our brains, without cutting ...
Why can't we remember when we were babies? Scientists who scanned infants' brains found that they do make memories. The ...
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"The potential for abuse and lack of accountability are horrifying. In Severance, the office workers have little notion of ...
By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, JHU researchers shed light on the ...
Having dedicated his career to understanding human brains, Eagleman shared his perspective in Newsweek's AI Impact interview ...
If asked to name someone famous, fictional or real who is 'on the spectrum', most people give the same sorts of replies.
NEW YORK — Uma Reddy was sitting at her kitchen table Monday night, wrapping up patient notes, when the notice finally came: The $16.6 million grant she had used to build a maternal health ...