Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these ...

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like telling a leaf apart from a rock. But they have struggled to build ...

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

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 ...

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

New research into the way the brain learns could help us better understand how our brains pick up new information and process ...

Viewing art is good for us, but new research may now tell us why — and that therapeutic uses may be better than previously ...

This important study presents a new method for longitudinally tracking cells in two-photon imaging data that addresses the specific challenges of imaging neurons in the developing cortex. It provides ...

Now though, the researchers have determined that echolocation training remodels the brain in sighted participants just as it ...

Researchers have now shown that, despite individual differences in neuron activity, a shared underlying structure guides the ...

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