Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — ...

Researchers examining the brain at a single-neuron level found that computation happens not just in the interaction between neurons, but within each individual neuron. Each of these cells, it turns ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Every time a human or machine learns how to get better at a task, a trail of evidence is left behind. A sequence ...

A new model of learning centers on bursts of neural activity that act as teaching signals — approximating backpropagation, the algorithm behind learning in AI. Every time a human or machine learns how ...