As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain ...

How does your brain know something is real? Your brain blends imagination and reality—sometimes too well. Keith Wagstaff Published Jul 11, 2025 9:00 AM EDT ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

Unlike most animals, whose brains remain smooth, species like humans, dolphins, and pigs exhibit a wrinkled cortex. These ...

AI chatbot toys marketed as screen-free playmates could undermine children's empathy and critical thinking skills, according ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently.

If artificial intelligence ever operates more like the human brain, it will be far more energy efficient. AI can more closely mimic human brain function through a concept called active inference.

A new brain-computer interface can decode a person's inner speech, which could help people with paralysis communicate.

Words like “training,” “fine-tuning” and “optimization” are frequently used to describe human behavior. But we don’t train, fine-tune or optimize in the way that AI does.

UB researchers are taking inspiration from the human brain to develop computing architecture that can support the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence.  ...

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows.