Neuroscience

A new technique relies on measuring changes in tissue stiffness resulting from neural activity

Letters to the editor from the April 2019 issue of Scientific American

Scientific American presents the winner and runners-up of the ninth annual Art of Neuroscience contest, along with other notable entries

A real-time capture of brain-circuit activity shows how simple it is to change what an animal sees

Brain cells that tick at regular intervals may coordinate neural activity like the conductor of an orchestra

Neuralink says it can robotically implant more than 3,000 flexible-polymer electrodes in a rat or monkey brain. The device is still a long way from routine human use, however

What spectators’ gaze reveals about the conjuring arts

The ancient thinker saw limits to what natural science can tell us about ourselves

Genes in the humble C. elegans also turn up in autism, schizophrenia and other human disorders

A new study reveals surprising variations in the neural code

The new discipline of network neuroscience yields a picture of how mental activity arises from carefully orchestrated interactions among different brain areas

Neural processing centers repeat recent sequences of events to lay down new memories used for abstract thought