In the well-known thought experiment known as the prisoner's dilemma, one individual has to decide whether to stay silent or talk to the police about their crime based on how they anticipate an ...

Casey Harrell using a brain-implant interface. (Regents of the University of California, Davis) This Week in Science: A world ...

Researchers have figured out how to temporarily look straight through a living brain tissue with minimal invasiveness and interference in its processes. Japanese researchers at Kyushu University ...

Despite great progress in brain science, computer science and mathematics, simulating a spiking neuronal network of the human brain at a scale of up to 86 billion neurons remains a substantial ...

Neural network models that are able to make decisions or store memories have long captured scientists' imaginations. In these models, a hallmark of the computation being performed by the network is ...

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom that larger group size reduces cooperation by showing that fluid connections and innate prosocial instincts enable humans to thrive in larger social circles ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered something remarkable about the brain – and it might explain our most vivid memories.