It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...

When Fei-Fei Li arrived in Princeton in January 2007 as an assistant professor, she was assigned an office on the second floor of the computer science building. Her neighbor was Christiane Fellbaum.

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom. Brain organoids, which ...

When the human mind drifts away from a specific task, it may actually improve the ability to absorb hidden patterns in the environment. A new study suggests that this mental wandering facilitates a ...