What if the brain prepares your actions before you ever “decide”—and what does that really mean for free will?

An MIT neuroscientist proposes that brain waves perform analog computations that give rise to thought and consciousness.

An international study—the largest of its kind—has uncovered similar structural changes in the brains of young people ...

Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers have mapped how different parts of the brain work together. Specifically, they ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

The human brain is extraordinary. It builds cities, writes symphonies, and decodes the universe, yet forgets why it entered a room. It is capable of breathtaking creativity and catastrophic ...

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...