Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and ...

To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do. By Carl Zimmer Companies like ...

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now discovered how the human brain uses two different groups of neurons to store ...

A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...