Neuroscience

New device is a step toward translating thoughts into machine-spoken words

The ascent of Japan’s Emperor Naruhito offers a lesson in the neuroscientific power of words

New study gets closer to restoring natural communication for those who cannot speak

The tiny brain of a honeybee is apparently able to calculate small numbers' addition and subtraction. Annie Sneed reports.

Recent research explains why you’ve never noticed before

An experiment that restored cellular function to pigs’ brains hours after death holds the potential for advancing neuroscience research

At an April 9th event sponsored by the Kavli Foundation and produced by Scientific American that honored Nobel and Kavli Prize winners, neuroscientists James Hudspeth and Robert Fettiplace talked about the physiology of hearing and the possibility of restoring hearing loss.  

The restoration of some structures and cellular functions in pig brains hours after death could intensify debates about when human organs should be removed for transplantation, warn Stuart Youngner and Insoo Hyun

The anesthetic-cum-party drug restores the ability to make connections among brain cells

Discovery of odorous markers for neurodegenerative disease

Social neuroscientists ask what happens at the level of neurons when you tell someone a story or a group watches movies

A new generation of brain-machine interfaces can deduce what a person wants