“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

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Imagine transforming any room into a behavioral maze that neuroscientists can use to study how the human brain processes rewards. What about bringing therapy directly into a patient’s home with guided ...

Using MRI scans, researchers found that participants’ patterns of brain activity were alike when looking at certain colors. But people can still experience those colors differently ...

It’s estimated it can take an AI model over 6,000 joules of energy to generate a single text response. By comparison, your brain needs just 20 joules every second to keep you alive and cognitive. That ...

Researchers at Lehigh University are exploring tiny lab-grown brain organoids to unlock the secrets of the brain’s efficiency ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often described as one of the invisible scars that firefighters and others accumulate after years of dealing with trauma in their jobs. Now the scars are ...

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...