Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

and specific areas within the hippocampus (the part of the brain that helps with learning, memory, and spatial navigation). All participants underwent standardised tests to assess their verbal memory.

At some point in your life, you must've experienced a lightbulb moment when an amazing idea just popped into your head out of nowhere. But what is your brain doing during these brief periods of ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section of a mammalian brain. This feat, part of the MICrONS Project, rivals the ...

So what’s going on up there? Like a bicycle, your brain is made up of different parts all coming together to make the whole thing work. It has two halves called the left and right hemispheres ...

In all, they collected data that covers about 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers) of neuronal wiring in a part of the brain that processes visual information from the eyes. Sign up here. "The millions of ...