Recent theoretical and empirical work on predictive processing and brain plasticity may help explain both the onset of and ...

Single neurons in mouse sensorimotor cortex are organized by their activity features into distinct subpopulations with area-spanning footprints whose boundaries align closely with anatomical and ...

Rather than having distinct departments for blindness, paralysis and sensory disorders, scientists are developing a unified ...

In the early 20th century, pioneering neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield made a groundbreaking discovery. While in the operating room, Penfield stimulated ...

Your brain’s neuroplasticity could get a boost later in life—thanks to your gut.

Researchers have found that the brain’s ability to hear and evaluate its own speech may matter more for learning new vocal ...

A Korean research team has developed brain electrodes that restore up to 78% of visual signals in blind rats. The technology is regarded as a key platform for implementing high-performance artificial ...

This information conduit is crucial to how your body functions. So why are so many people trying to shock it? By Simar Bajaj Running along either side of your neck is a pair of marvelous fibers that ...

Older mice that received a faecal microbiome transplant from younger animals went on to have improved brain plasticity, which suggests their brains could overcome a neurological condition that is typi ...

The visual system must integrate spatially fragmented information to perceive coherent object boundaries. Contour integration represents a fundamental process underlying this perceptual organization ...

Naeser M, Hugo T, Kobayashi M, et al. Modulation of cortical areas with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve speech in aphasia. Neuroimage Human Brain Mapping Meeting, 2002: (abstr ...

At this January’s massive NAMM music tech show in Los Angeles, six products won “best of show” awards. Several of them went to major music and electronic brands like Yamaha and Boss, but one of the ...