Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New brain-inspired algorithm improves speech recognition in noise for hearing aid users by up to 40%. (CREDIT: Unsplash) In a busy ...

IISc and Pratiksha Trust launch a groundbreaking project to develop AI-powered brain co-processors for stroke rehabilitation.

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain's wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published June ...

Actors have been trained for more than a century using techniques rooted in late 19th-century psychology. According to acting teacher and researcher David Ihrig, those methods no longer reflect how ...

The signals that drive many of the brain and body's most essential functions—consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate and motion—course through bundles of "white matter" fibers in the brainstem, ...

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning algorithms is helping to accelerate brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Published in this month’s Nature Neuroscience is new research that shows ...

A small region of the brain, known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), plays a key role in how we process rewards. It produces dopamine, a neuromodulator that helps predict future rewards based on ...

Although we spend a lot of our time online nowadays--streaming music and video, checking email and social media, or obsessively reading the news--few of us know about the mathematical algorithms that ...

By measuring the magnetic fields of the brain, researchers found that different contemplative practices uniquely change how ...