How is it possible for the brain to recognise drawn objects as houses or animals? In a recent study in the Journal of Neuroscience, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and ...

Gallery: Art through instability: how drawings move the brain IN THE YouTube age it is easy to forget that artists rely on clever tricks to create a sense of motion in still images ...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal's drawings of nerve cells changed scientists' understanding of the brain. Now, 80 of those drawings are going on display at an art museum in Minnesota.

Researchers built a 3D image of nearly every neuron and its connections within a small piece of human brain tissue. This version shows excitatory neurons colored by their depth from the surface of ...

It’s a long, hard road to understanding the human brain, and one of the first milestones in that journey is building a … database. In the past few years, neuroscientists have embarked on ...

The robots have inspected more than 10 million human brain cells so far, Dr. Lein estimated. Image Bottom row: Drawings of neurons known as double bouquet cells, isolated from tissue biopsies ...