The validity of a leading theory -- that electrical signals generate spiked patterns that encode different types of cognitive information -- has just been called into question by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers. Their ...

DARPA has killed the BICA (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures) project to reverse-engineer the human brain. The brain effort linked experts from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, robotics and artificial intelligence, who wanted to rep...

Researchers at Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have identified people's decisions about how they would later do a high-level mental activity -- in this case, adding versus subtracting. The researchers inferred t...

The brain appears to process information more chaotically than has long been assumed. This is demonstrated by a new study conducted by scientists at th...

MIT scientists have engineered a nano-sized calcium sensor that may eventually shed light on the intricate cell-to-cell communications that make up human thought. Alan Jasanoff and his team at the Francis Bitter Magnet Lab and McGovern Institute ...

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the University of Oxford have identified the very first embryonic neurons in what develops into the cerebral cortex. They are in place 31 days after fertilization. This is much earlier than previously t...