A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain ...

We don't usually realize it, but every word we speak depends on a series of complex brain processes working behind the scenes ...

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. Neuroscientists show how nerve cells in the so-called amygdala not only encode the probability and ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ...

New insight into decision-making pathways in the brain may impact the way engineers think about artificial intelligence, ...

Recent studies are uncovering how optical illusions exploit the brain’s predictive coding system, revealing the interplay ...

A research team has uncovered a fundamental principle of how the brain prioritizes vision and hearing differently depending on whether we are still or in motion. The study provides new insights into ...

The world has changed since 1664, when French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes first claimed the brain was responsible for the sensation of pain. However, a key question remains: How exactly ...

German scientists have successfully cryopreserved adult mouse hippocampal tissue, cooling it to -196°C and later rewarming it ...