A tennis return can look almost automatic. The ball comes off the racket, crosses the court in a blur, and somehow a player ...

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 ...

A new study reveals the brain doesn’t rely on a single clock but builds our sense of time through multiple stages across ...

Young adults experiencing high levels of social anxiety show distinct patterns of heightened activity and altered communication in the visual centers of their brains. Recognizing these early ...

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 ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for processing color and fine spatial detail, and another that's involved in ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in Trieste, published in PLOS Computational Biology. The research shows that, ...

Assessing the brain at the Barbican, London, UK. Image by Tim Sandle. Assessing the brain at the Barbican, London, UK. Image by Tim Sandle. New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to ...

A groundbreaking fMRI study has mapped the exact neural shifts of a self-induced visionary state. Researchers discovered that ...

Blindness affects millions of people worldwide and severely limits their independence, daily functioning, and overall quality of life. In Spain, the prevalence of blindness is estimated at 0.17% , ...