A new package of papers examines the largest map yet of mammalian brain tissue. The map shows one cubic millimeter worth of neurons in the visual cortex of a mouse. Many brain functions, particularly ...

Neuroscientific advances follow a pattern of visualizing the brain, measuring its function and then controlling it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each colored dot in this image represents a neuron that is firing during the decision-making process. - Daniel ...

When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers found eight body-like maps in the visual cortex that organize what we see ...

Learn how brain tissue donated to science after death gives clues about genetic changes in neurological disorders and how we ...

Let a mouse nose around a house, and it will rapidly find food and form a strategy to return to it without getting caught. Given the same task, an AI would require millions of training examples and ...

With a brain the size of a sesame seed, the lowly fruit fly is often considered a kitchen pest. But to neuroscientists, the flies are a treasure trove of information detailing how the brain’s ...

Most neuroscience research still runs on mice, even though much of what applies to mice does not hold up in humans. Marmosets have emerged as a bridge between species. However, comparing the brains of ...

But models of the insect’s nervous system have been trained to solve a Rubik’s Cube, play video games and even parallel park a car.