A nanoscale project represents a giant leap forward in understanding the human brain. With more than 1.4 ... and process in the aligned volume." Each neuron had thousands of relatively weak ...

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

Is the human ... neuron clusters are tuned to horizontal lines. Courtesy of Yevgeniy B. Sirotin When the brain is working well, the different parts are connected by long fibers called axons (see ...

Our brains contain billions of neurons and trillions of connections, and scientists are only beginning to understand the ...

Scientists are working on breaking the physical limits of what semiconductors can do, merging human brain neurons with ...

How does the brain retain a sequence of events in memory? Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University ...

The human brain has about 1,000 times more neurons than the mouse brain, for instance, and 13.5 times more than the macaque 1.. But brain size and neuron number aren’t everything; some animals ...

Mirror neurons are a type of brain cell that is activated both when ... more difficult to record the activity of a single neuron in human brains. However, studies using neuroimaging procedures ...