Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

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

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

No, a visual puzzle isn’t just another fancy word for a jigsaw puzzle—though a jigsaw puzzle is a type of visual puzzle. The concept of visual puzzles is much broader than that. This guide will ...

UNC School of Medicine researchers used MRI to document crucial differences in the visual processing system in the brains of infants who went on to be diagnosed with autism. CHAPEL HILL, ...

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 ...

Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs. The ball and the water behave very differently, and it turns out that your brain has ...

My last article focused, oddly enough…on focus—namely, how to help gifted students who are easily distracted by outside stimuli. Those of you with easily distracted students or children of your own ...

Accessing the brain for neurosurgery involves drilling and cutting that can cause deep-brain anatomy to shift or become distorted. This can create discrepancies between pre-operative imaging and the ...

Over at the Cuda Developer Zone, Calisa Cole writes that Dr. Adam Gazzaley of UC San Francisco is using GPU computing to accelerate brain science research. We are working with a distributed team (UCSF ...

Researchers compared a traditional Chinese medicine, Yueju Pill, with a standard antidepressant and found both reduced ...