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Researchers have developed a powerful new software toolbox that allows realistic brain models to be trained directly on data.

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New research reveals brain circuits follow daily schedules for memory formation, with specific hours offering advantages for ...

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A new brain decoding method called mind captioning can generate accurate text descriptions of what a person is seeing or recalling—without relying on the brain's language system.