Chinese researchers tested whether monitoring passengers' brain activity could help self-driving systems make safer decisions ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to ...

The first complete activity map of the brain has been unveiled by a large international collaboration of neuroscientists. The International Brain Laboratory (IBL) researchers published their findings ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

Humans have dabbled in virtual reality for years, but only now does the venerable mouse get a shot at experiencing a new reality. Scientists at Cornell University didn't set out to build something ...

Children get annual checkups with a pediatrician to determine if they are thriving. This is done by assessing if their height and weight are progressing at expected rates. But how do we measure ...

Cognitive health is the ability of the brain to function properly and perform various mental tasks effectively. Strong cognitive health allows you to carry out activities of daily living, interact ...

An international team of researchers is studying how vibration applied to tendons influences how people experience physical ...

Place cells are neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, that help the brain keep track of the body’s location in space. Arrays of these cells form a cognitive map, firing off electrical ...

"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...