A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers ...

A biologically grounded computational model built to mimic real neural circuits, not trained on animal data, learned a visual categorization task just as actual lab animals do, matching their accuracy ...

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It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their vision ...

About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to ...

Researchers have crossed a threshold that once belonged squarely to science fiction: they have built working models of brains ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

The idea of “reading minds” has shifted from science fiction to a concrete engineering challenge, and the latest breakthroughs suggest the brain’s private code is finally yielding. Researchers are not ...

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 ...

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MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

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.