Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

The human brain is approximately three times larger than monkeys and contains around 16 billion neurons. In contrast, a ...

The significance of this resting state activity is unclear, and until now had only been investigated in humans. Raichle and colleagues now show that the macaque monkey brain also shows resting ...

At the heart of Japan’s national brain initiative, the Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain/MINDS) project, lies a diminutive monkey — the common marmoset.

This is called ‘monkey mind’ or ‘monkey brain’ and according to Psychology Today, it’s a mainstream term that started with ...

Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink said it should be ready to test its brain-implant technology on humans in six months ... ‘telepathic typing’ in a monkey and the implantation of a neural ...

Since optogenetics burst onto the scene in the early 2000s, brain researchers have embraced the technique to study functions ranging from sleep and hunger to voluntary movements and sensory input. The ...

Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California improved thinking and restored decision-making in five monkeys using an electrode array implanted into their ...