Dinner last Friday was a hoot. Wine and conversation flowed; dishes were perfectly seasoned. The reward center of your brain lit up like the Fourth of July. This week you have a decision to make: ...

Investigators have discovered that activity in two widely distributed brain networks previously considered separate are actually correlated with each other and together play a key role in recognition ...

The brain’s memory center may begin life more like a crowded web than an empty canvas. Researchers discovered that early neural networks in the hippocampus are dense and seemingly random, then become ...

A new neural-network architecture developed by researchers at Google might solve one of the great challenges for large language models (LLMs): extending their memory at inference time without ...

Learning is often thought to require a brain. But learning is a broad concept that does not necessarily depend on neurons. If an organism uses information from past experiences to shape its future ...