Recent posts tagged neuroscience

Why It Matters The ability to translate neural activity into visual content is a milestone that sits at the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and human‑computer interaction. Until now, reconstructing an image from a brain scan ...

How brains, ancient Greeks, and Fortune 500 companies all arrived at the same counterintuitive truth about strategic subtraction. The Brain's Demolition Crews During sleep, immune cells called microglia systematically eliminate underperforming syna...

In 1997, Wolfram Schultz stuck electrodes into the brains of macaque monkeys and squirted juice into their mouths. What he discovered reframed our understanding of desire, disappointment, and why your timeline was insufferable in the spring of 2023. ...

Deep in your brainstem, a clump of neurons the size of a walnut is making the most consequential decision of your day. Not what to eat for lunch. Not whether to accept that job offer. Something more fundamental: should you keep doing what's working, ...