What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

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Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new ...

One of the most important cognitive foundations of human language is our ability to develop associations between the ...

The investigation was a global endeavor that led to a Post series exposing the Smithsonian's “racial brain collection.” ...

Markita Landry is the first to admit that the two applications her research addresses – imaging brain chemistry and delivering genetic material into plants – are rather divergent.

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

In “Cerebral Entanglements,” Allan J. Hamilton argues that new imaging technologies give us unprecedented access — with ...

Take a look around your home and you'll find yourself surrounded by familiar comforts—photos of family and friends on the ...