searching and obtaining food or provisions. Primates are used in brain studies because of their close biological and ...

Raichle and colleagues now show that the macaque monkey brain also shows resting state activity and, intriguingly, that it even occurs when the animals are unconscious. The authors found three ...

Here's a video clip of one of the monkeys controlling the wheelchair with its brain to reach a food container: Brain-machine interfaces (also known as brain-computer interfaces) have been around ...

The gene is said to be important for human brain development and the treated monkeys subsequently showed human-like brain development, reports China Daily. The human gene, microcephalin or MCPH1, is ...