Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of neuroscience and psychology studies. Most past studies focusing on the visual cortex ...

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 ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development of computational models inspired by the brain's layered organization, also ...

But many scientists still believe that the scientific keys to the kingdom of consciousness are within reach. Lately, some are ...

People with aphantasia—individuals who report experiencing no visual imagery at all—also showed reduced activation of the brain's visual cortex in response to sounds, according to a new study. The ...

This optical illusion puzzle challenges observation skills by hiding an odd number among similar digits. Backed by visual ...

A Korean research team has identified distinct differences in brain networks among people with depression who have attempted ...