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

A new brain imaging study shows that when people try to remember multiple things, their brains give more precise attention to ...

New research reveals that the brain may be learning even during unstructured, aimless exploration. By recording activity in ...

A study reveals that our moments of mental wandering could prepare the brain to learn more effectively ... revealing a previously unknown mechanism: the visual cortex encodes visual patterns without a ...

Using rare brain recordings from patients, scientists found that the thalamus helps trigger visual awareness. The study ...

New research shows that the human brain automatically recognizes what actions an environment affords—like walking, climbing, or swimming—even without conscious thought.

Every decision begins invisibly. Long before someone acts, the brain is already hard at work gathering evidence, weighing ...

Brain scans show humans instantly detect possible actions like walking or swimming from images. Visual areas encode this ...