Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

When a baseball player hits a home run off a 100-mph fastball, how can the slugger's brain track such a fast-moving object? Scientists may now have the answer. In a new study, they discovered how the ...

A study tracking thousands of neurons shows how the brain separates memory content from context to support flexible recall.

University of Rochester researchers published a study in eLife in which they examined a novel neural mechanism involved in causal inference as the brain detects another object in motion during ...

Ever wonder how a batter knows when to swing at a pitch coming toward him, sometimes at more than 90 miles per hour? Former Yankees catcher Yogi Berra pondered that question, once asking "How can you ...

Researchers have gained important insights into how the human brain processes information and allocates attention. Their study shows people pay attention to objects based on their real-world size, ...

Many neuroscientists suspect that in order to see, a person first sorts through edges, contours, and other basic visual features using a brain area called the primary visual cortex. Then so-called ...

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) scientists have shown that they can tell what kind of object a person is looking at -- a face, a house, a shoe, a chair -- by the pattern of brain activity ...

Back in 2011, after Greg Dunn completed his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, he didn’t return to the lab. Instead, he decided to focus on art specifically, merging his interests ...

Researchers have identified how the human brain is able to determine the properties of a particular object using purely statistical information: a result which suggests there is an 'inner pickpocket' ...

According to researchers at the University of California at San Diego, visual areas of our brain respond more to valuable objects than other ones. In other words, our brain has stronger reactions when ...