What goes on in your brain while watching a movie? MIT neuroscientists have made remarkable progress in answering this question by creating the most detailed functional brain map to date. By observing ...

In a study published Feb. 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team reports that a small, buried brain region called the insula contains its own organized map of the body.

An AI-produced rendering shows a map of mouse brain regions, overlaid with network motifs. (UCSF Illustration) Scientists say an artificial intelligence program that they compare to ChatGPT has helped ...

For centuries, philosophers have asked: where, in the mind, does a decision begin? Is there a moment we can point to and say—there, that’s when the mind… made up its mind? Neuroscience has long tried ...

Neuroscientists propose a new theory of brain development where cells organize based on lineage rather than long-range signals.