Neuroscientists are closing in on a striking idea: some brain cells appear to be tuned specifically to music, firing in patterns that let us anticipate the next note before it arrives. Instead of ...

Mass General Brigham investigators have developed a robust new artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model that is capable ...

Your brain not only processes what you see but continuously makes predictions based on your experiences. This process may be less finetuned in people with autism. When someone throws a ball at you, ...

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

Cognitive testing done at the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study. Predicting cognitive abilities from brain imaging has long been a central goal in cognitive neuroscience. While ...

Donald Trump can change the temperature of a room with a sentence. One minute he is certain, the next he is backtracking. One day he is threatening, the next he is hinting at a deal. Even before ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

New research suggests that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia may come from a brain glitch that confuses inner thoughts for external voices. Normally, the brain predicts the sound of its own ...