New research shows how psychedelics alter visual processing and boost memory-linked brain circuits to generate hallucinations, revealing mechanisms with therapeutic implications.

Hallucination is the perception of having seen, heard, touched or smelled something that was not there. It is believed that mental processes that operate during hallucinations include memories and ...

Scientific research has become one of the most promising applications for artificial intelligence. It’s also become one of the most divisive. Across the world, tech firms are directing AI’s analytical ...

If you had to estimate the number of people in a room, without counting them one-by-one, by nature you would overcount them. That’s because, simply put from a Darwinian perspective of how we have ...

When someone sees something that isn't there, people often refer to the experience as a hallucination. Hallucinations occur when your sensory perception does not correspond to external stimuli.

The tech industry is rushing out products to tamp down artificial intelligence models' propensity to lie faster than you can say "hallucinations." But many experts caution they haven't made generative ...

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Up to 80 percent of people with these conditions experience auditory hallucinations, hearing speech or ...

Last year, “hallucinations” produced by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) were in the spotlight in the courtroom and all over the news. Bloomberg News reported that “Goldman Sachs Group Inc., ...