For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

You are a child who grew up. The inevitability of a child’s growth is both celebrated and mourned. Under normal circumstances, parents can do little but stand back and watch as shoe sizes climb, ...

We all know the feeling of having an “Aha!” moment—when your thoughts and ideas seem to flow without friction or viscosity and come together in a millisecond of perfect harmony. Having an epiphany is ...

In Parts 1 and 2 of this series on brain size and intelligence, I discussed how brain size on its own tells us little about intelligence and behavioral complexity both within and across species, and I ...

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 ...

A new study suggests AI systems could be a lot more efficient. Researchers were able to shrink an AI vision model to 1/1000th of its original size.

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 ...

Explore the parallels and differences between AI architectures and the human brain's design and functionality in processing information.