Learn how our brains store images that help us achieve flashes of insight when looking at seemingly incomprehensible visual tests.

A single clear image can rewire the visual brain, making later recognition faster without relying on memory systems.

Scientists still don’t know how the brain turns physical activity into thoughts, feelings, and awareness—but a powerful new tool may help crack the mystery. Researchers at MIT are exploring ...

Consciousness has long been described as one of science's toughest puzzles. Researchers still do not fully understand how physical brain tissue gives ...

Facial emotion representations expand from sensory cortex to prefrontal regions across development, suggesting that the prefrontal cortex matures with development to enable a full understanding of ...

Neuralink nears human trials for Blindsight, a revolutionary brain implant promising to restore sight to the blind. Learn how ...

How does meaning arise from matter? This is Part 2 of a four-part series exploring how the brain generates meaning. In Part 1, I argued that meaning emerges from relations among neural patterns, ...

Transcranial focused ultrasound could be used to determine whether specific brain signals actually cause consciousness or just happen to occur at the same time. In this method, acoustic waves travel ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bilal Haider, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Despite the nursery ...

A wireless, ontogenetic device that sends information directly to the brain has been developed by a team at Northwestern University. The soft, flexible device sits under the scalp, on top of the skull ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in Trieste, published in PLOS Computational Biology. The research shows that, ...