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The Victorian paleontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area termed the Hippocampus minor. He claimed that made it unique in the ...
Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're all connected.
To build the map, researchers at Columbia University and the University of Bordeaux took a slice of a frozen human brain and, using a woodworking saw (yikes!), chopped it into 703 sugar-cube-sized ...
"But we don't have a way to look at bioenergetics across the entire human brain." "MitoBrainMap marks a milestone toward understanding the energy landscape underlying brain health, with ...
“It’s that the human brain must be working differently. It is just the fact that in the chimpanzee brain, you will have a visual stimulus going all the way from visual processing areas into ...
Learning happens in the sensory cortex, an area believed to only process sensory input "Looking at a tiny part of the brain in a mouse, we can understand how the brain learns, and we can make ...
The way neurons inside the human brain function and communicate is being used as a roadmap for creating new artificial systems. But more strikingly, scientists now are trying to merge human ...
A new paper in Engineering titled “Machine Memory Intelligence: Inspired by Human Memory Mechanisms” presents an approach to ...