While past research has hinted at an overlap in relevant brain regions, the new work drills down to the cellular level. The ...

Watching a football game on a glitchy internet stream can be frustrating: The screen freezes during a scoring drive, and by the time the picture returns, the touchdown has already happened. You saw ...

The same brain cells activate when you see something and when you imagine it, helping explain why mental images can feel so ...

In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...

Reading a person’s mind using a recording of their brain activity sounds futuristic, but it’s now one step closer to reality. A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences ...

When we look for something moving in the sky, our expectation would be very different if the object is a bird flying past or a baseball coming straight at us. UC Davis scientists in a new study looked ...

Scientists have successfully reconstructed videos purely from the brain activity of mice, showing what the mice were seeing, in a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers. The ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The pianist Nicolas Namoradze teamed with neuroscientists for a breakthrough in experiment design. The pianist Nicolas Namoradze wanted to record videos that would visualize how ...

The first complete activity map of a mammalian brain has revealed unprecedented insights into how decisions are made – and may even hint at the roots of that mysterious feeling we call intuition. For ...

This simple, evidence-based habit can strengthen memory and help you navigate everyday life with ease. Reviewed by Dietitian Katey Davidson, M.Sc.FN, RD, CPT Cognitive training boosts memory and ...

Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body's energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you're ...