Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...
Scientists found special brain connections in seals and sea lions that help control vocal sounds. This may explain how speech ...
BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...
A new bioengineered neuronal circuit board "BioConNet" allows scientists to artificially engineer human brain-like wiring at scale and can be used to engineer any possible circuit. The fully ...
People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...
In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...
The Conversation reports that the brain can be trained like muscles; new challenges and rest help boost brain health and connectivity.
A single exercise session increased electrical activity in a brain region tied to learning and memory, a first-of-its-kind ...