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 ...

Recent research has shown how the brain may compensate for reduced visual input during walking by reinforcing functional ...

Scientists discovered that the visual brain may secretly "feel" what it sees, turning sight into physical experience and ...

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 ...

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and ...

During the development of mice, sensory experiences such as vision, touch and hearing play crucial roles in shaping and maturing neural circuits. The period when visual experience has the most ...

People who pull an all-nighter or work back-to-back overnight shifts lose more than alertness. A growing body of primary ...

What are the foundations of visual categories in the human brain? Although infant looking behavior characterizes the development of overt categorization, it cannot measure neural representation or ...

Much as a pilot might practice maneuvers in a flight simulator, scientists might soon be able to perform experiments on a realistic simulation of the mouse brain. In a new study, Stanford Medicine ...

Researchers at Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF), led by Prof. Vincent Bonin, have published two new studies uncovering how visual information is processed and distributed in the brain. The ...

For most of us, watching a movie feels effortless. We follow dialogue, read facial expressions, notice music cues and ...