Viren Jain is a senior staff research scientist at Google Research, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, and leads the Connectomics at Google team. Can a computer be programmed to ...

Long-term memory emerges from a sequence of molecular programs that sort, stabilize, and reinforce important experiences.

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning ...

The Cleveland Clinic is partnering with San Francisco–based startup Piramidal to develop a large-scale AI model that will be used to monitor patients’ brain health in intensive care units. Instead of ...

Researchers plugged a "brain organoid" into an artificial intelligence system, using the neural tissue to help complete computational tasks. The experiment could mark a step toward "biocomputers." ...

THOMAS EDISON is said to have held a steel ball in each hand as he prepared for a nap. When he nodded off, they would drop, waking him and allowing him to capture the ideas he had in the moment just ...

It took 10 years, around 500 scientists and some €600 million, and now the Human Brain Project — one of the biggest research endeavours ever funded by the European Union — is coming to an end. Its ...

A new study by physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale describes how connectivity among neurons comes about through general principles of networking and ...

What happens to our brains as we get older? Well, for the most part, they shrink—but not all of this shrinkage is inevitable. To find out how to slow, and even reverse, age-associated brain shrinkage, ...

Scientists have discovered a fascinating link between creativity and cognitive impairment. In addition to producing art and literature, creativity is essential for problem-solving and adaptation. A ...