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Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain's wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published June ...

To date, scientists have created complete connectomes—maps of all the neural connections in the brain—for only three organisms with just a few hundred brain cells each. 1-3 Now, with a study published ...

Stunning images show the most detailed map of the brain ever produced, revealing each of the 50 million connections which allow for complex behaviour.

Since the 1930s, the so-called homunculus map has shown how different parts of the brain's motor cortex may control movement to different parts of the body. But it may be missing an important ...

Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. An international scientific team has built the first map of an adult insect’s brain, offering a potential ...

Specifically, the map shows how speech sounds like consonants and vowels are represented in the brain well before they are spoken, and how the brain strings them together during language production.