Two new studies published in the journals Neuron00792-5) and Naturereveal how the human brain transforms a continuous stream of sound into distinct words. The findings identify a specific neural ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

This important study provides a detailed analysis of the transcriptional landscape of the mouse hippocampus in the context of various physiological states. The main conclusions have solid support: ...

Dr Shahid Amin [email protected] Writing has been one of oldest and most transformative inventions. Once created, it ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...

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

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets ...

A small brain region reacts strongly to chimp calls. This shows that our voice system links to older primate signals.

The human brain experiences five distinct eras as we age, and each is defined by changes in our neural architecture that influence how we process information, new research shows. The brain changes ...