Scientists Find Prehistoric Brain Circuit Still Controls Vision

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.
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Scientists Built a Working Brain—And Now the ‘Possibilities Are Endless,’ a Scientist Says

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists showed that it’s possible to reproduce an entire cerebral cortex inside one of the world’s fastest computers. The model represents the ...
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Brain Imaging of Greater Scope Achieved with In Vivo Nanosheet Method

Researchers led by a team at the Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS) and the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS) have developed a new method for in vivo ...
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Study identifies universal blueprint for mammalian brain shape

Researchers have developed a new approach for describing the shape of the cerebral cortex, and provide evidence that cortices across mammalian species resemble a universal, fractal pattern.