These boosts are made for walkin': Study reveals that movement kicks visual...
Whether you're a Major League outfielder chasing down a hard-hit ball or a lesser mortal navigating a busy city sidewalk, it pays to keep a close watch on your surroundings when walking or running....
View ArticleMovies synchronize brains
When we watch a movie, our brains react to it immediately in a way similar to other people's brains.
View ArticleBrain researchers discover how Galileo's visual illusion works in the mind's eye
Scientists have studied a visual illusion first discovered by Galileo Galilei, and found that it occurs because of the surprising way our eyes see lightness and darkness in the world. Their results...
View ArticleNoisy brain signals: How the schizophrenic brain misinterprets the world
People with schizophrenia often misinterpret what they see and experience in the world. New research provides insight into the brain mechanisms that might be responsible for this misinterpretation. The...
View ArticleNeuroscientists discover adaptation mechanisms of the brain when perceiving...
The headlights – two eyes, the radiator cowling – a smiling mouth: This is how our brain sometimes creates a face out of a car front. The same happens with other objects: in house facades, trees or...
View ArticleEven at infancy, human can visually identify objects that stand out, study finds
Even by three months of age, babies are visually able to locate objects that stand out from a group, a York University study has found.
View ArticleRunning, combined with visual experience, restores brain function
(Medical Xpress)—In a new study by UC San Francisco scientists, running, when accompanied by visual stimuli, restored brain function to normal levels in mice that had been deprived of visual experience...
View ArticleResearcher creates a new kind of microscope to study the brain
Spencer Smith, PhD, peers through a microscope of his own creation, trying to home in on a single neuron. The cell is tiny, about 0.015 millimeters in diameter. He attempts to clamp a microscopic...
View ArticleWaking up the visual system
The ways that neurons in the brain respond to a given stimulus depends on whether an organism is asleep, drowsy, awake, paying careful attention or ignoring the stimulus. However, while the properties...
View ArticleInhibitory neuron functionality as a consequence of more complex network...
The two major types of neuron in the brain's cerebral cortex are connected by intricate cortical circuits that process information. Excitatory neurons, which comprise 80 percent of all neurons in this...
View ArticleTeam develops computer model explaining how brain learns to categorize
New York University researchers have devised a computer model to explain how a neural circuit learns to classify sensory stimuli into discrete categories, such as "car vs. motorcycle." Their findings,...
View ArticleHow the brain learns to distinguish between what is important and what is not
Traffic lights, neon-lit advertisements, a jungle of road signs. When learning to drive, it is often very difficult to distinguish between important and irrelevant information. How the brain learns the...
View ArticleNew study sheds new light on mind-brain relationship
A new Dartmouth study sheds light on how the mind and brain work together to visualize the world.
View ArticleInfants use expectations to shape their brains
Infants can use their expectations about the world to rapidly shape their developing brains, researchers have found.
View ArticleShapes, lines and movements are in the eye of the beholder
New thinking about how we perceive shapes, lines and movement suggests this information is first deciphered in the retina of the eye, rather than within the brain's visual cortex as previously thought.
View ArticleInfant learning: Is more really better?
Many parents and caregivers believe that multi-sensory stimulation during infancy promotes developmental growth and learning, but researchers who conducted eye movement experiments on preverbal infants...
View ArticleStudy reveals cortical circuits that encode black and white
While some things may be 'as simple as black and white,' this has not been the case for the circuits in the brain that make it possible for you to distinguish black from white. The patterns of light...
View ArticleThalamus found to add contextual information to visual signals
The thalamus not only relays visual signals from the eye to the visual cortex as previously thought, but also conveys additional, contextual information. Integrating these different signals is...
View ArticleDo speakers of different languages hear music differently?
Neuroscientists have been wondering whether the distortions in the way we perceive foreign languages related to our knowledge of our mother tongue also characterize how we perceive non-linguistic...
View ArticleYour brain suppresses perception of heartbeat, for your own good
EPFL researchers have discovered that the human brain suppresses the sensory effects of the heartbeat. They believe that this mechanism prevents internal sensations from interfering with the brain's...
View ArticleBifocals in the brain: Visual information from near and far space processed...
Neuroscientists from Tübingen have discovered how our brain processes visual stimuli above and below the horizon differently. The researchers led by Dr. Ziad Hafed of the Werner Reichardt Centre for...
View ArticleZebrafish reveal the ups and downs of vision
Researchers from the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King's College London have shed light on how we perceive and recognise specific visual stimuli.
View ArticleResearchers link a rabbit retina to a chip in vitro
Nystagmus is a genetically transmitted disease that causes an uncontrolled, back-and-forth twitching of the eyeball. Roughly one in every 1,500 men suffer from it. But before now, we did not know that...
View ArticleHumans perceive time somewhere in between reality and our expectations
New research, using a Bayesian inference model of audio and visual stimuli, has shown how our perception of time lies mid-way between reality and our expectations.
View ArticleResearchers find new role for cannabinoids in vision
A multidisciplinary team including researchers from the Montreal Neurological Institute has improved our understanding of how cannabinoids, the active agent in marijuana, affect vision in vertebrates.
View ArticleAfter blindness, the adult brain can learn to see again
More than 40 million people worldwide are blind, and many of them reach this condition after many years of slow and progressive retinal degeneration. The development of sophisticated prostheses or new...
View ArticleAdults more influenced by prior knowledge, beliefs than children when first...
Adults rely more on top-down processing than children when observing paintings by van Gogh, according to a study published June 21, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Francesco Walker from the...
View ArticleObstructing the 'inner eye': Psychologists aim to develop brain theory of...
Hypnosis can help people stop smoking, sleep better and even undergo dental treatment without pain. But what exactly is hypnosis and what precisely happens in the brain of a hypnotised person? These...
View ArticleBrief reactivations of visual memories are enough to complete a full learning...
A new Tel Aviv University study finds that brief memory reactivations can replace repeated extensive practice and training—commonly known as "practice makes perfect"—as a basis of procedural learning.
View ArticleBrain cap gives scientists a better look at brain behavior
No, it's not a swimming cap, but it is making a splash in the field of brain science. This electroencephalography—or EEG—cap monitors electrical activity in the brain and has been helping scientists at...
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