A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

A new study shows that the brain's visual system adapts to your goals, reshaping perception based on what you're trying to do ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery?

Imagine waking up thirsty at night and having to reach for a glass of water in the dark. Without a clear view, your brain has ...

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A new study by biomedical engineers and neuroscientists shows that the brain's visual regions play an active role in making sense of information.

A Columbia University’s School of Engineering study in the US has shown that the brain’s visual regions play an active role ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen shows that our brain deals with different forms of visual uncertainty during movements in distinct ways. Depending on the type of uncertainty, ...

A research team at Stanford University has become the first to assemble a functioning brain circuit in a lab dish by ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a ...