It’s been hard for the neuroscience community to take a step back from this old school interpretation that the brain is this ...

The human brain isn’t a blank slate waiting to be written by experience, according to research that challenges the ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf's lab used organoids to make fundamental discoveries about human ...

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought ...

New research using human brain organoids shows that early neural activity follows structured, time-based patterns long before sensory experience begins.

Neuromorphic supercomputers are entering a period of growth as researchers bring them closer to the structure and function of the brain.

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...

How do pigeons know where they're going while flying across vast distances? Researchers point to their inner ear system.

An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, working with the Paul Scherrer Institute, has ...

A computer model developed by researchers from Japan and Seattle's Allen Institute could lead to new methods for studying ...