The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

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

To this day, in the known universe, only one example exists of a system capable of general-purpose intelligence. That system is the human brain.

In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview published in Brain Medicine, Dr. Michael C. Oldham shares his unconventional journey from advertising executive to computational neuroscientist and his ...

Sharf holds a CMOS-based microelectrode array chip used to precisely locate the electrical activity of single neurons within millimeter-sized organoid tissue. Humans have long wondered when and how we ...

A hidden waste-removal pathway in the brain has finally been caught in action. Using cutting-edge MRI scans, researchers ...

Explore 25 rare brain abilities only a tiny fraction of people have, from tetrachromacy to echolocation. Uncover the ...

Do AI chatbots understand reality? Researchers used "AI neuroscience" to prove that language models develop internal world models that mirror human intuition.

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. It is not possible to understand the long-term future of artificial ...