Researchers used high-resolution MRI to compare the brains of people born blind and sighted individuals. They found reduced ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...

By activating the visual cortex electrically, those modules generate simple spots or patterns of light that the brain can try to make sense of.

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...

Recent theoretical and empirical work on predictive processing and brain plasticity may help explain both the onset of and ...

Rather than having distinct departments for blindness, paralysis and sensory disorders, scientists are developing a unified ...

Researchers at Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF), led by Prof. Vincent Bonin, have published two new studies uncovering how visual information is processed and distributed in the brain. The ...

Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana is challenging a story neuroscience has told for decades. According to the conventional account ...