If data is the oil of the 21st century, then “brain” data is the crude oil. We need to guard it more jealously. Right now, in most jurisdictions around the world, there is no law preventing tech ...

The human visual system provides us with a rich and meaningful percept of the world, transforming retinal signals into visuo-semantic representations. For a model of these representations, here we ...

A new brain decoding method called mind captioning can generate accurate text descriptions of what a person is seeing or recalling—without relying on the brain's language system.

Amani Banks, a George Mason University freshman, sat on the south side of the campus last week and pointed out that the ...

Enter artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of advanced robotics – a significant step beyond the basic bots that companies ...

Researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre have discovered that inflammation may play a key role in ...

From runways to Hollywood, curvy representation is reshaping beauty, driving inclusion, and redefining pop culture.

Spatial maps of lung precancer and cancer cells at different points in development advance understanding of the earliest ...

By contrast, long-term memory is the system that stores information more permanently, allowing us to recall events, facts and skills even years later. But transferring information from short-term to ...

Spatially and temporally overlapping target and distractor are both rhythmically sampled at ~1 Hz, and the phase relationship between target sampling and distractor sampling predicts behavior.