Light is quietly becoming the new language of brain technology. Instead of thick wires and skull-penetrating electrodes, a ...

Restoring lost senses or delivering precise brain signals has required invasive hardware and can’t mimic the brain’s natural, distributed activity patterns. This platform shows the brain can learn to ...

A new brain device from Northwestern University is asking a daring question: what if information could reach your brain ...

The thin, flexible, wireless device sits next to a quarter for scale. Device emits complex patterns of light (shown here as an "N") to transmit information directly to the brain. In a new leap for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new brain-machine interface (BMI) uses light to "speak" to the brain, mouse experiments show.

Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a much quieter conversation. Now a set of new tools is letting researchers ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...