Living cells constantly exchange ions (i.e., charged particles) via the thin barrier that surrounds their interior, known as ...

A new study from the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience researchers may help explain an enduring mystery about ...

A zebra finch can fit in the palm of your hand, but its brain is doing something that looks almost unruly. Inside one part of the adult songbird brain, newly formed neurons do not politely weave ...

Language-Specific Hardware: At the single-neuron level inside the hippocampus, individual cells are largely language-specific ...

Newborn nerve cells must squeeze through crowded, narrow spaces—through dense tissue, past other cells, and between fibers—to ...

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As newborn neurons make their way through the developing brain, they must squeeze through incredibly tight spaces to reach their final destinations. Researchers discovered that this physical journey ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I analyze the recently announced ...

Mirror neurons, in Heyes' view, aren't evolved specifically “for” understanding, imitation, or any other purpose – rather, they're simply ordinary motor-cortex neurons that happen to take on special ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In the early 1990s, a team of neuroscientists ...