Despite the rapid advances in artificial intelligence in recent years, the humble human brain still has the edge over ...

New research offers a possible explanation for how the brain learns to identify both color and black-and-white images. The researchers found evidence that early in life, when the retina is unable to ...

This video lets you peek inside the human brain, highlighting the neuronal fibers that enable communication across the brain. This communication is vital to all brain functions, including learning, ...

Some artificial intelligence models can already resemble the human brain even before having learned anything. This surprising ...

Princeton scientists found that the brain uses reusable “cognitive blocks” to create new behaviors quickly.

A pair of monkeys staring at colored shapes in a Princeton lab may have brought you closer to understanding how your own mind ...

Human brains learn new tasks quickly by reusing mental building blocks, a flexibility scientists are now studying to improve AI.

Detail of a pyramidal cell. Dendrites are red and orange. The axon is blue. Source: Allen Institute for Brain Science Neuroscience got its start more than 100 years ago when Santiago Ramon y Cajal and ...

Speaking a language with different words for different color shades allows the brain to perceive those shades quicker than using a language with only one word for that color, according to new research ...

UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

Discover how cognitive flexibility in humans allows for rapid learning by reusing skills, a challenge for AI learning models.

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...