Research in mice reveals a new way that brain plasticity is controlled — providing a long-awaited insight into how critical ...
Some neuroscientists argue that the roots of experience lie deep inside the brain. If they’re right, the consciousness club ...
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 ...
Turns out we’re not all watching the same version of the world unfold, just continuously updating our own personal “simulation.” ...
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 ...
A new scientific perspective on aphantasia suggests it may be a form of "mental imagery blindsight" rather than a lack of mental imagery altogether.
Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these ...
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 ...