Johns Hopkins University cognitive psychologists are the first to link human's long-term visual memory with how things move.Image Credit:Flickr/amy leonard
As Superman flies over the city, people on the ground famously suppose they see a bird, then a plane, and...
This image shows Giant Nudibranch, Dendronotus iris.
Credit: Courtesy of Ralph and Dale Marie Gonzales
Scientists at Georgia State University have rewired the neural circuit of one species and given it the connections of another species to test a hypothesis about...
EPFL scientists propose a new way of understanding of how the brain processes unconscious information into our consciousness. According to the model, consciousness arises only in time intervals of up to 400 milliseconds, with gaps of unconsciousness in between.
The...
A research team from Oxford University have shown how different colours of light could affect our ability to sleep.
The researchers, led by Dr Stuart Peirson from Oxford's Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute were aiming to understand why exposing mice...
Pathways that exist before kids learn to read may determine development of brain’s word recognition area.
Neuroscientists have long wondered why the brain has a region exclusively dedicated to reading — a skill that is unique to humans and only...
Highly creative people have significantly more white matter connections (shown in green) between the right and left hemispheres of the brain, according to a new analysis. Credit: Daniele Durante, University of Padova
An MRI technique called diffusion tensor imaging...
Most adults can quickly and effortlessly recall as many as 100,000 regularly used words when prompted, but how the brain accomplishes this has long boggled scientists.
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When you look at a picture of a mug, the...
Credit: Tawakol et al, 2017, The Lancet
A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISSMS) investigators has linked, for the first time in humans, activity in a stress-sensitive structure within the...
After spheroids representing two different brain regions fuse in a dish, neurons from one spheroid (green) migrate into the second and forge connections with neurons residing there.
Credit: Courtesy of the Pasca lab
Peering into laboratory glassware, Stanford University School of...
UC San Diego neurosurgeons color code the brain with tractography. The circular object is a tumor.
Credit: UC San Diego Health System
Neurosurgeons at UC San Diego Health System are using a new approach to visualize the brain's delicate anatomy prior...
The illustration on the right shows how the brain's V1 and V2 areas might use information about edges and textures to represent objects like the teddy bear on the left.
Credit: Salk Institute
If you think self-driving cars can't get here...
