Neurons, the uber-connected nerve cells that act as a main switchboard for the brain, are central to some incredibly ...

Our mushy brains seem a far cry from the solid silicon chips in computer processors, but scientists have a long history of comparing the two. As Alan Turing put it in 1952: “We are not interested in ...

The evolution of brain processing capacity has traditionally been inferred from data on brain size. However, similarly sized brains of distantly related species can differ in the number and ...

Comparing brains to computers is a long and dearly held analogy in both neuroscience and computer science. It’s not hard to see why. Indeed, there’s already a productive flow of knowledge between the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about neuroscience and its intersection with technology. In 1994 Carl Sagan wrote a book entitled ‘Pale Blue Dot’. In it, ...

The paper S. Holler et al., “Structure and function of a neocortical synapse,” Nature, doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03134-2, 2021. Brain cells use a language of ...