Let a mouse nose around a house, and it will rapidly find food and form a strategy to return to it without getting caught. Given the same task, an AI would require millions of training examples and ...

For centuries, philosophers have asked: where, in the mind, does a decision begin? Is there a moment we can point to and say—there, that’s when the mind… made up its mind? Neuroscience has long tried ...

Mice turning tiny steering wheels to move shapes on a screen have helped scientists produce the first brain-wide map of decision-making at single-cell resolution in a mammal. For decades, most ...

The brain will try to create a world in which it can function. If it is to survive, it will build its functions "in a new environment." It will compensate for everything it can and learn everything it ...

Brains are physical structures—clusters of interconnected cells, vessels, and chemicals. Within this substrate emerges something profound: the mind. Cognitive neuroscience has made significant ...