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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes, such as ...

In the mid-1670s, Johannes Swammerdam, a Dutch biologist, peered through his microscope at a honeybee's brain and drew what ...

[2] As a foodie, I will confess to a few food photos. Oddly, with time, I found it hard to remember what the dish actually was. Source: Eating with our eyes: From visual hunger to digital satiation ...

However, experts don’t fully understand how these drugs might affect your brain health—and the science on sleep medications is complicated, says sleep researcher Adam Spira, a professor in the ...

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But what exactly is happening in the brain during these moments? Scientists have explored this question, uncovering some intriguing insights. When a word is “on the tip of the tongue ...

A torrent of disruptive Trump administration policies is alarming scientists who fear the current political climate is weakening researchers’ resolve to stick with careers in academic science.

Brain ageing might be related to X chromosomes passed down from the mothers. A new study has found that the X chromosome passed down to the child from the mother might be responsible for ...

Take a look around your home and you'll find yourself surrounded by familiar comforts—photos of family and friends on the ...