When you close your eyes and picture a familiar face, your brain does not conjure the image from scratch. According to ...

In the past, when researchers modeled quadruped gaits — how four-legged organisms walk, run and move — gaits have been ...

The same brain cells activate when you see something and when you imagine it, helping explain why mental images can feel so ...

A Cedars-Sinai study published in Science reveals that the same neurons used to perceive objects once also reactivate when imagining them later.

Researchers at Tohoku University and Future University Hakodate have trained cultured rat cortical neurons to perform ...

How do worms navigate? A new study maps the whole-brain circuit of C. elegans, revealing how neurons and the chemical ...

The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in their ...

Scientists have succeeded in reactivating axon growth by blocking a cellular switch, offering hope for the repair of severe ...

Scientists have trained a computer made from living human neurons to play the classic video game Doom, marking a strange but important step forward in biological computing. A clump of roughly 200,000 ...

Why can images of things we have seen seem so real when we later recall them from memory? A new study led by Cedars-Sinai ...