Neuroscientists have discovered how the brain distinguishes between visual motion occurring in the external world from that ...

Neuroscientists have discovered how the brain distinguishes between visual motion occurring in the external world from that ...

New research explores the many ways our sensory experiences overlaps, teaching us new ways the brain perceives ...

When someone is scared, the body initiates a “fight or flight” response, causing physical changes like increased breathing, ...

This release decreases inhibitory input to vLGN neurons, resulting in heightened activity in ... Reference: “Overwriting an instinct: Visual cortex instructs learning to suppress fear responses” by ...

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex predicts the future by detecting novel stimuli and forming short-term memory ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells that are essential to our understanding of other people. Runnan ...

In the posterior part of our brain, particularly in the occipital visual cortex, the connection is strong because space and time are processed by the same neurons. "This region, specialized in ...

We conclude that specific visual experience induces development of clusters of perirhinal neurons with similar stimulus preferences. We recorded the activity of neurons from perirhinal cortex of ...

The functioning of the brain relies on the precise organization of neuronal connections. In an article published in ...

Research reveals how the brain learns to suppress instinctive fear responses, pointing to new potential targets for PTSD and ...