The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, perception, memory, language, and thought have been mapped onto distinct brain ...

By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...

Scientists have found that the human brain understands spoken language in a surprisingly similar way to advanced AI systems.

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development of computational models inspired by the brain's layered organization, also ...

Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

There has been quite a bit of coverage in the popular press about University of California, San Francisco researchers solving the mystery of how selective hearing works — how people can tune in to a ...

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...