In a new study, scientists successfully trained a brain organoid derived from mouse stem cells to solve an engineering benchmark known as the “cart-pole problem.” By applying weak or strong electric ...
When faced with a tricky maze task involving hidden information, humans instinctively toggle between two clever mental strategies: simplifying in steps or mentally rewinding. MIT researchers showed ...
For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?
A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...
In 2021, a dish of living human brain cells figured out how to play the 1970s arcade game Pong. It took just five minutes for the collection of neurons, called DishBrain, to learn how to move the ...
Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell growth, development, and proper connectivity. This environment is carefully ...
People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...
What was your favorite toy growing up? This paradox claims that memory—and every other one—is just a random fluctuation.