"If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, the Doom guy shoots." The post Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom ...

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...

A dish of living human neurons has been taught to play Doom. No, it isn’t conscious or watching the screen the way players do. But it is learning to respond to signals in a way that produces ...

The human brain is one of the most complex structures known to science, containing billions of interconnected neurons. These ...

You've heard of hardware. But have you heard of "wetware?" The post New Data Centers Will Be Powered by Human Brain Cells ...

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are closely related to chimps, the slight differences in ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. It is not possible to understand the long-term future of artificial ...

The visceral substrate of selfhood is not an add-on to cognitive self-awareness; in many frameworks, it is its foundation. Neuroimaging shows the anterior insula co-activating with the medial ...

A research team at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new noninvasive brain stimulation technique, by showing how focused ultrasound affects the human brain. Using brainwave recordings from ...

The brain may organize emotions like locations on a map, revealing a hidden system that helps people interpret changing feelings.