Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

How does the brain retain a sequence of events in memory? Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University ...

Scientists have identified a protein sensor in intestinal neurons that responds to pressure, inflammation to stimulate the ...

In recent years, many engineers have been trying to develop hardware components that could emulate the functions of various ...

The quest for a cure for paralysis has been a long and arduous journey, filled with incremental advances and setbacks.

Scientists have developed a new method that can grow motor neurons from skin cells, which may serve as a platform for ALS ...

Scientists discover "electric spiking" communication in previously thought to be mute cells, paving the way for bioelectric ...

New research reveals that parrots produce speech using brain structures remarkably similar to those in humans.

It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells -- which compose the linings of our skin, organs and body cavities -- are mute, ...