News: Neuroscience

Alex Huth is trying to build an intelligent computer system that can predict the patterns of brain activity in a human listening to someone speaking.

In this episode of Point of Discovery, we talk to neuroscientist Laura Colgin about the potential, and possible pitfalls, of new technologies that connect the human brain...

Michael Mauk and his team have made a discovery that adds an important detail to a computer simulation of the part of our brains called...

Boris Zemelman has been influential in the field of optogenetics, which is producing insights that could uncork a flood of new therapies.

The brain is the most complicated object in the known universe, but as scientists are learning, it offers five important clues for understanding its wonders.

Michael Mauk is working on a "digital cerebellum" that mimics the part of the brain that helps us keep from falling. It could help make...