“Our findings show that learning goes beyond local changes — it reshapes the communication between brain regions, making it ...

The world's largest wooden structure has been completed. Aptly named the Grand Ring, it takes the form of a massive circular loop with a walkway on top and has a circumference of approximately 2 ...

while this tendency is much weaker for basal synapses.” [ Related: Messing with mouse brains during sex leads to unexpected discovery. ] This hints that dendritic structure may be one factor in ...

However, how the brain determines which synapses should be modified during learning and whether individual neurons apply the same plasticity rules uniformly across their structurally and ...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17 (Reuters) - Intel's (INTC.O), opens new tab new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, is flattening the semiconductor giant's leadership team, with important chip groups reporting directly to ...

Such modifications are orchestrated across trillions of synapses—the connections between individual neurons—where brain communication takes place. In an intricately coordinated process ...

Sophisticated synapse imaging used in NIH-funded project tracks changes within neurons as learning unfolds, offering new insights for brain-like AI systems How do we learn something new? How do tasks ...

Of particular interest to astronomers is the nebula's faint, Venn-diagram-like structure — two rings of ejected material shaped by the gravitational influence of the central stars. Scientists ...

Scientists have mapped the brain’s structure ... wiring diagram and functional map of the brain to date, containing more than 200,000 cells, four kilometers of axons (the branches that reach out to ...

Detailing its algorithms—the ways it processes information as revealed by its structure and wiring—could inspire more ... brain—all its cells and connections—and linked this wiring diagram to how the ...

Electrical synapses that carry messages through the brain have been artificially engineered in mammals for the first time, altering their behaviour. This could have potential for preventing or ...