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 ...

Think you can trust your eyes? Think again. What feels undeniable at first glance is sometimes a surprise, an illusion, or an ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many years, a dominant view in neuroscience was that neurons in the inferotemporal (IT) cortex—a critical center in the ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

How does the brain create mental images? A new study reveals that visual imagination and perception share a common neural code.

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 brain that develops in the deprivation of one sense reorganizes itself in surprising ways, revealing remarkable ...

A new study provides a "guidebook" for brain implants, proving that flexible polyimide materials significantly reduce brain ...

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