The human brain is not a passive recorder of events, it is an active simulator that constantly rehearses futures, rewrites ...

Neuroscientists are closing in on a striking idea: some brain cells appear to be tuned specifically to music, firing in patterns that let us anticipate the next note before it arrives. Instead of ...

From large language models to whole brain emulation, two rival visions are shaping the next era of artificial intelligence.

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As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the ...

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

Zooming in on the auditory cortex, the researchers found three unique sets of neurons that light up while we listen to music. Two sets of neurons encode absolute pitch (individual musical notes) and ...

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...

This study presents a valuable advance in reconstructing naturalistic speech from intracranial ECoG data using a dual-pathway model. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid, ...