A remarkable feature of the brain is that similar information is invariably represented in several parallel brain areas. It is therefore often unclear whether and how these different areas contribute ...

Every night, when your head hits the pillow, you do more than just dream. Your brain takes all the information experienced that day — formulas crammed for a calculus test, snippets of office gossip, ...

For this work specifically, Schapiro and colleagues built a neural network model composed of a hippocampus, the brain's center for new memories, tasked with learning the world's day-to-day, episodic ...

A new study identifies a region of the thalamus as a key source of signals encoding past experiences in the neocortex. The brain encodes information collected by our senses. However, to perceive our ...

The neocortex is the largest and most complex part of the brain and has long been considered the ultimate storage site for long-term memories. But how are traces of past events and experiences laid ...

If you were going to build an electronic brain in 2022, it might look something like the Neocortex supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University. That machine, ...