Neurons behind illusions: Researchers found IC-encoder neurons in the primary visual cortex that recreate illusory shapes based on feedback from higher brain areas. Old theories confirmed: A new study ...

When danger lurks, instinct keeps us safe. It compels us to run from a burning building or wrestle a knife-wielding attacker ...

Without visual input generating a constant stream of ambiguous or unpredictable signals, the brain may settle into more ...

When I was little, I didn’t understand why calendars were in a grid, because to me, the months of the year present in the ...

Brain’s fill-in tricks: Special neurons in the visual cortex help complete missing or ambiguous patterns, creating illusions that feel real. Mindset and perception: What you see first in an illusion ...

Humans’ flexible temporal cognition, including mental time travel, arises from perspective-agnostic encoding of event sequences in the hippocampus and perspective-dependent retrieval and ...

Wireless brain implant restores artificial vision progress with third blind patient implanted in US clinical trial.

Our olfactory system, which originated millions of years ago, evolved to detect small changes in the chemical composition of ...

Researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon, have for the first time managed to identify, with an imaging technique, whether nervous ...

Researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon have for the first time managed to identify with an imaging technique ...

Sereact plans to expand Cortex 2.0 from bin picking to tasks such as assembly and kitting, and it is opening a Boston office.