When animals move through complex visual environments, the brain cannot afford to analyze every detail one by one. Instead, ...

Meta AI describes a system that predicts fMRI-measured brain responses during naturalistic film viewing by jointly modeling ...

How does the brain see the "big picture"? A new study reveals that the primary visual cortex (V1) calculates statistical ...

Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs. The ball and the water behave very differently, and it turns out that your brain has ...

Repeated self-talk, whether positive or negative, physically shapes the brain through neuroplasticity. Observing thoughts, ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...

In the different rooms, the workings of the brain are illustrated by drawings of the men carrying out various tasks. The caption reads, “Imagine your brain as the executive branch of a big business.

Closing your eyes may not help you hear better in noisy places. Keeping your eyes open can actually improve how you detect ...

My last article focused, oddly enough…on focus—namely, how to help gifted students who are easily distracted by outside stimuli. Those of you with easily distracted students or children of your own ...