Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways associated with differences in brain size and cognitive function A new study sug ...

Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Artificial intelligence was built to process data, not to think like us. Yet a growing body of research is finding that the internal workings of advanced language and speech models are starting to ...

Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains ...

Not everyone is able to think quickly, but here are 11 obvious signs your mind works faster than the average person.

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What if the key to being a better manager isn’t found in a new productivity hack, a different feedback framework, or a time management app—but in understanding the three-pound organ inside your head ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...