The brain is the most complex organ and system know to humans. It helps to create a computer model of one to find out how things work, and why things go wrong.

In a new paper, researchers describe a relatively accessible method for making a working -- though not thinking -- sphere of central nervous system tissue. The advance could provide an inexpensive ...

The striatum is known to play a critical role in the human brain by coordinating multiple aspects of cognition, including decision-making, motor control, motivation, and reward perception.

The Human Brain Project has just won a €1 billion research prize. Its director Henry Markram says the initiative will unify our understanding of the brain ...

Unlike artificial language models, which process long texts as a whole, the human brain creates a "summary" while reading, helping it understand what comes next.