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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...