How does your brain instantly know how to move through new places? A new study helps explain the science behind your internal ...

In order to understand the structure and functioning of the brain, neuroscientists need to study the complex, ...

The primary visual cortex (V1) is probably the best characterized area of primate cortex, but whether this region contributes directly to conscious visual experience is controversial. Early ...

This is an important study that combines replications of findings and novel detailed MRI investigations to assess the impact of environmental enrichment and maternal behavior on mice brain structure ...

Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what ...

Active vision dynamically refines spatiotemporal neural representations, optimising visual processing through scanning behaviour and non-associative learning, providing insights into efficient sensory ...

Inspired by nature, scientists created a self-powered device that recognizes color just like our eyes, paving the way for ...

A better understanding of how the human brain represents objects that exist in nature, such as rocks, plants, animals, and so ...

A new attention model reveals how the human brain allocates limited perceptual resources to focus on goal-relevant information in dynamic environments.

Neuroscientists explain how optical illusions expose the brain’s shortcuts in processing reality, revealing how perception ...

Credit: Current Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.043 Perceiving dangers with the left visual field brings advantages. The group analyzed 408 publicly available YouTube videos in which a ...

May 8, 2025 — Obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that causes lower oxygen levels during sleep, is linked to degeneration of brain regions associated with memory through damage to the brain's ...