Casey Harrell using a brain-implant interface. (Regents of the University of California, Davis) This Week in Science: A world ...

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The goal: to understand how brains control the behavior of an animal or human.

In the well-known thought experiment known as the prisoner's dilemma, one individual has to decide whether to stay silent or talk to the police about their crime based on how they anticipate an ...

Researchers have figured out how to temporarily look straight through a living brain tissue with minimal invasiveness and interference in its processes. Japanese researchers at Kyushu University ...

Despite great progress in brain science, computer science and mathematics, simulating a spiking neuronal network of the human brain at a scale of up to 86 billion neurons remains a substantial ...

Neural network models that are able to make decisions or store memories have long captured scientists' imaginations. In these models, a hallmark of the computation being performed by the network is ...

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Scientists have discovered something remarkable about the brain – and it might explain our most vivid memories.

New research challenges conventional wisdom that larger group size reduces cooperation by showing that fluid connections and innate prosocial instincts enable humans to thrive in larger social circles ...