Researchers discovered that a different part of the brain handles stringing sounds and words together into coherent sentences ...

Far from a full brain map, this particular effort involved only a cubic millimeter of the human temporal cortex, containing 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels and 150 million synapses.

To produce this groundbreaking map, the brain of a female adult fruit fly was carefully cut into 7,000 segments each only 40 nanometers thick.

The struggle of the mind to fathom the brain it inhabits is the most circular kind of search–the cognitive equivalent of M.C. Escher’s lithograph of two hands drawing one another.

A new mouse study of spatial memory suggests that the brain's representation of places "drifts" over time. Memories of places ...

The complexity of the human brain—86 billion neurons strong with more than 100 trillion connections—enables abstract thinking, language acquisition, advanced reasoning and problem-solving, and ...

The human brain is an engineering marvel: 86 billion neurons form some 100 trillion connections to create a network so complex that it is, ironically, mind boggling.

While this map marks a major milestone, the work is far from over. Scientists now hope to link specific brain regions in this map to behaviors and diseases.

What happened A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature. Identifying and charting the 130,000 neurons and 50 million ...

Researchers used fMRI to map the brain activity of 31 participants while they solved hidden picture puzzles. The more intense their “aha! moment,” the more blood flow there was to those parts of the ...