A clever tropical fish has flipped how biologists are thinking about memory, brains and visual recognition in the animal ...

Optical illusions with hidden images are amazing for testing your visual powers. These illusion images challenge your brain's ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a non-invasive way to explore brain activity. Reading a person’s mind using a recording of their brain activity sounds futuristic, but it’s now one step closer ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

Optical illusions are like mini brain tests that are designed to challenge your perception, observation, and visual ...

Experts have identified five elements of a brain-based condition that has emerged as a leading cause of vision impairment starting in childhood in the United States and other industrialized nations.

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 ...

In the fast-paced world of digital distractions, a new kind of viral phenomenon has taken over our social feeds: the high-stakes visual perception challenge. As a long-time observer of how our brains ...

The results revealed that the speed of alpha brain waves in the parietal cortex plays a key role. This region of the brain ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha ...