Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

Next time you feel an itch, remember that your brain's vast network of neurons informs it whether it is an itch or pain. A ...

New research from the University of Chicago challenges long-held beliefs about how synaptic plasticity contributes to memory and learning. As animals encounter new experiences, the connections between ...

A new study reveals that memory-related brain activity continues to shift even after learning, challenging traditional views ...

New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped how individual neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex receive ...

The neurons responsible for this process can each perform different tasks: for example, some mainly process motion, others lines or colors. In the 1960s, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel famously ...

A new process for converting skin cells to neurons directly could make it easier to develop therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.