New research is giving us a clearer picture of the human brain and how it functions.

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the ...

A new study suggests that people are more likely to consciously notice neutral spoken words than negative ones when ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...

When you're listening to a familiar language, you hear individual words, but what if the language is unfamiliar? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking Japanese). SUMMERS: Unless you speak Japanese, that ...

Sharf holds a CMOS-based microelectrode array chip used to precisely locate the electrical activity of single neurons within millimeter-sized organoid tissue. Humans have long wondered when and how we ...