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Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like telling a leaf apart from a rock. But they have struggled to build ...

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Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what ...

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How does your brain instantly know how to move through new places? A new study helps explain the science behind your internal ...

Brain scans show humans instantly detect possible actions like walking or swimming from images. Visual areas encode this ...

Neuralink, the neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk, may be able to help restore hearing at some point. That is ...