Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has ...

It’s no secret that artificial intelligence is changing the way we work. With more and more simpler tasks being automated, humans are left with more high-level cognitive work, such as idea generation.

The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...

A study offers a glimpse of how the brain turns experience into emotion. In mice and humans, puffs of air to the eye caused persistent changes in brain activity, suggesting an emotional response. Get ...

Unlike more specialised kinds of mental processing, there is no dedicated “imagination cortex” that shows up on brain scans. Instead, imagination is the result of inputs from all corners of the brain ...

Daniel Joyce does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

To a fruit fly running on empty, the scent of chocolate isn't a dessert, it's a lifeline. Flies, and all animals, instinctively sense when something's missing from their diet and adjust their eating ...

A new book by one of the founders of research on neural networks covers more than 40 years of scientific work that led to the ...