Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

Taking all this together, the spontaneous activity reshaping hypothesis – our new theory that imagination carves images out ...

These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

The appearance of predictive text in writing an email or text message has become, for better or worse, a regular feature of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...

A breakthrough in brain-inspired computing could make today’s energy-hungry AI systems far more efficient. Researchers have engineered a new nanoelectronic device using a modified form of hafnium ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animals’ brains began to ...

Large language models, often called LLMs, usually help write emails, answer questions, and summarize documents. A new neuroscience study suggests they may also hint at how your own brain understands ...

Seemingly unrelated diseases and conditions like Alzheimer's disease, obesity, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, and ...

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain.

Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body's energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you're ...