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Have you ever wondered how your brain creates thoughts or why something randomly popped into your head? It may seem like magic – but actually the brain is like a supercomputer inside your head that ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has seen a huge surge within just a few years. Apps like Microsoft Copilot promise to help you brainstorm and plan; ChatGPT offers help with homework and professional work ...

This Communications Biology study used intracranial EEG in 22 epilepsy patients to map how the human brain processes new ...

Since then, many more researchers have reported evidence for neurons changing how they respond to certain stimuli or ...

For unknown reasons, neurons in these two brain regions become hypersynchronized, generating intense neural activity that spreads to the rest of the brain along cable-like extensions called axons. As ...

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." — Emerson M. Pugh In a previous piece, I argued that introspection may be our most direct ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

Is there anything you can do to improve your own brain function in just a few minutes a day? New research suggests that the ...