Your brain is carrying more spare wiring than anyone suspected. In a study that upended a long-standing assumption in ...

Researchers have discovered a new way that brain plasticity is controlled in early life, offering insight into the ...

When animals move through complex visual environments, the brain cannot afford to analyze every detail one by one. Instead, it rapidly extracts the overall structure of the scene—for example, the mean ...

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...

Some neuroscientists argue that the roots of experience lie deep inside the brain. If they’re right, the consciousness club ...

Turns out we’re not all watching the same version of the world unfold, just continuously updating our own personal “simulation.” ...

Imagine yourself sometime in the far future aboard a routine rocket to Mars. Someone just spilled their drink. Without gravity, it collects in floating blobs that ripple right before your eyes. Now ...

A small team of brain researchers at South China Normal University, working with a colleague from the University of New South Wales, has found that the visual processing parts of the brain light up in ...

New Haven, Conn. — Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people ...

Vision isn’t a passive process; it’s a constant exchange of information between the eyes and the brain. That’s why artificial systems must also reproduce this feedback loop to mimic better how the ...