"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and oneself. You sense the world through your eyes, nose, ears and hands, and track ...

A recent publication in Nature Machine Intelligence really got me thinking. In this study, researchers created an artificial system that not only simulates but also behaves like our brain. This ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest of the body cast in supporting roles. A wave of new microbiome research is ...

The last several decades produced revolutionary advances in two areas: identifying neuronal processes responsible for intelligence and designing machine ...

Recent advances in neuroimaging and molecular analyses have considerably enriched our understanding of cetacean brain anatomy and the evolutionary pressures shaping its distinctive features. Cetaceans ...

In 1943, a pair of neuroscientists were trying to describe how the human nervous system works when they accidentally laid the foundation for artificial intelligence. In their mathematical framework ...

Intelligence, therefore, depends on how the brain manages the division of labor across different networks and combines them as needed. Second, for the brain to manage this distributed processing, it ...

There’s no question that AI systems have accomplished some impressive feats, mastering games, writing text, and generating convincing images and video. That’s gotten some people talking about the ...

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Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology in Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology, is also the director of the Notre Dame Human Neuroimaging Center and the Decision ...