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.

Summary: Researchers discovered how the brain develops reliable visual processing once the eyes open. Early on, visual inputs and modular brain responses are mismatched, creating inconsistent patterns ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...