A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

Neural networks generate abstract images designed to activate particular cells ... to try and understand what is represented in different parts of the brain,” says neuroscientist Andreas Tolias of ...

You probably have a general understanding of the human brain ... Complex or abstract ideas emerge as a result of the firing of many of these nerve cells, or neurons. This means that a concept ...

Using a piece of that mouse’s brain about the size of a poppy seed, the researchers identified those neurons and traced ... just like looking at pictures of the galaxies,” said Forrest Collman ...

Published in Cell Reports, this study reveals that neurons—the cells that make up our brain—use simple physics to maintain their connections, and that these processes change in Alzheimer's ...

Published in Cell Reports, the study confirms that neurons can distinguish objects or people regardless of their context, ...