New research suggests that premature babies and even full-term newborns experience pain very differently than adults do.

A particular sort of dream control helps people mold their minds, practice real-life skills, and even shape their waking ...

A University of Surrey study reveals that gentle electric currents applied to the brain enhance maths skills in young adults.

Jeffrey Lawson was born prematurely in February 1985. Shortly afterward, the newborn had to undergo heart surgery without anesthesia. After Jeffrey Lawson’s death, his mother was told that her son had ...

Answering the question of when consciousness emerges is deeply tied to the mystery of what it actually is and how it can be ...

Oh no! You dropped your keys on the ground, and it is too dark to see them. You might have to feel the ground with your hands ...

Deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are designed to partly emulate the functioning and structure of biological neural networks. As a ...

Intracortical brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) provide people with paralysis a means to control devices with signals decoded from brain activity. Despite recent impressive advances, these devices ...

If hearing an old song or getting a whiff of freshly sharpened pencils instantly carries you back to high school, you’re familiar with the link between your senses and memory. W ...

Timing is everything Sensory processing of sounds begins in the cochlea, a part of the inner ear where sound frequencies are converted into electricity and forwarded to the auditory cortex of the ...