Machines have come a long way in seeing and understanding images, but they still don’t see quite like humans do. A new ...

Taiwanese researchers have successfully simulated the human brain’s synaptic learning and memory, demonstrating the ...

How far, and for how long, a robot can navigate depends on how much power it consumes over time. Robot navigation systems are ...

A new model reads brain signals to identify memory categories, which could help develop memory-restoring tools for cognitive ...

Cells called astrocytes are about as abundant in the brain as neurons, but scientists have spent much less time figuring out ...

The brain's visual system consists of a network of areas that work together, with lower areas handling simple details (e.g. small regions of space, colours, edges) and higher areas representing ...

Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs.

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of neuroscience and psychology studies. Most past studies focusing on the visual ...

Visual perception at the edge of darkness The research showed that humans can detect extremely small differences in the intensity of light at the threshold of darkness. This precision is achieved ...

This lights up neurons in an area just outside of the hippocampus known as the parahippocampal cortex. As part of our brain’s visual system, the parahippocampal cortex helps us process what we see.