The human brain operates as a tireless prediction machine. It watches a dropped glass and anticipates the shatter. It listens ...

A hidden waste-removal pathway in the brain has finally been caught in action. Using cutting-edge MRI scans, researchers ...

“We used deep visual neural networks to create numerical descriptions of objects so that we could understand the neurons’ ...

By recording brain activity directly, scientists showed that imagining an object can revive parts of the neural pattern used ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

How does the brain create mental images? A new study reveals that visual imagination and perception share a common neural code.

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Humankind stands at an evolutionary crossroads, and the key to our survival lies in awakening a latent potential within the ...

The brain? It has a flexible social perception. In interactions with people from different ethnic groups, it tends to respond ...