Rather than having distinct departments for blindness, paralysis and sensory disorders, scientists are developing a unified ...

Is there really such a thing as human nature? The answer lies between two old extremes, and getting it right shapes how we face AI, authoritarianism, and climate.

Single neurons in mouse sensorimotor cortex are organized by their activity features into distinct subpopulations with area-spanning footprints whose boundaries align closely with anatomical and ...

Much like camera settings—filters, flashes and focus—affect what we notice in a final photo, the way scientists measure ...

Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana is challenging a story neuroscience has told for decades. According to the conventional account ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies developed independently for 50 years to restore sight and touch are functionally identical, establishing a unified framework that accelerates ...

Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we’re engaged in right now, and scientists think it ...

Patients with untreatable conditions such as sight loss or loss of motor function could be closer to a viable technology for restoring their lost sense within a faster time frame. This is due to the ...