The result supports earlier studies that used brain imaging to find evidence that the same neural circuits are involved in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's a visual illusion that catches the brain in the act of making up color. Arrange a set of black spokes radiating from a ...

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 ...

Your brain isn’t just looking – it’s predicting. Here’s why that means you can stare straight at something and still not see ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Associate professor Dong Song (L) and first author Xiwei She (R) discuss their machine learning model. (CREDIT: USC) Scientists ...

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