For most of history, the unseen darkness was part of ordinary life. For example, families in medieval Europe slept in two acts—a “first sleep,” then a waking hour to pray, make love, or wander to a ...

In a first-of-its-kind achievement, researchers non-invasively and precisely directed ultrasound beams to target a location ...

University of Tübingen researchers used fMRI to record brain activity while people viewed colored moving rings.

We take our understanding of where we are for granted, until we lose it. When we get lost in nature or a new city, our eyes ...

You join a swing dance class, and at first you're all left feet. But – slowly, eyes glued to the teacher – you pick up a step or two and start to feel the rhythm of the big band beat. A good start.

Nearly half of humanity speaks more than one language, and many adults can read and master several writing systems. How does the visual cortex adapt to the recognition of words written with different ...

Early and accurate diagnosis of dementia remains a major challenge. Standard approaches such as MRI and PET scans can provide ...

Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

Scientists discovered how the brain uses objects to anchor our sense of direction, solving part of the mystery of spatial ...