Researchers have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes as the ever-changing neuronal ...

Human evolution has revolved around food, from identifying and foraging for it to growing and preparing it. Researchers have identified a region in the brain's visual cortex that responds to food and ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny Health Network have developed a new method for deep brain ...

Mathematicians are investigating how the intricate folds in the human brain – which have increased as our species has evolved – help to improve our brainpower.

This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Researchers from the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed the intrinsic relationship between the topological structure of human brain ...

Comparing consciousness to a plasma ball can help us better understand key aspects of subjective conscious experience.

New research provides the first direct evidence that brain lesions causing secondary psychosis map to a common brain circuit ...

"Brain fog" is an informal term used to describe a range of symptoms caused by a mild loss of cognition (including the ability to think, perceive, learn, or remember). People with brain fog describe ...

“What you’re going to see is a view that’s constantly evolving,” Rockwell explains. “There is a theatrical feeling of its being a stage, but it is also very much a viewing platform.

Genetic variants linked to autism are associated with structural differences in neonatal white matter, particularly increased ...