Perceptual learning and visual cognition constitute an interdisciplinary field that investigates the brain’s remarkable capacity to refine visual processing through experience. By examining how ...

Open the Youtube video Neuroscientists have successfully reconstructed moving images directly from the brain activity of mice ...

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

Social cognition research explores how humans detect, interpret, and respond to social cues—capacities that are fundamentally shaped by attentional ...

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

AI is transforming how we think and work—but at a cognitive cost. This piece explores “AI brain fry,” the pressures driving ...

To what extent has Earth’s gravity shaped our cognitive and brain functions? Utilizing spaceflight and a ground-based analog, a new study shows that the human brain relies on bodily gravitational ...

A new neuroscience study suggests that expert birdwatchers may develop structural brain changes linked to attention, ...

They looked at the brain’s non-visual light-sensing system, driven by melanopsin-containing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs). Even though the photopigment melanopsin is in ...

Discover 5 puzzles that strengthen memory, focus, and reasoning. From Sudoku to crosswords, these brain games help keep your ...