Cells called astrocytes are about as abundant in the brain as neurons, but scientists have spent much less time figuring out how they contribute to brain functions. A novel study by MIT researchers at ...

Imagination is a significant mental activity of human beings that can serve as a brain-computer interaction (BCI) paradigm, and visual imagery (VI) has become a relatively new BCI paradigm. VI is the ...

Prior research has shown that people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience difficulties recognizing faces and ...

Daydreaming is shown to improve brain health by stimulating memory, creativity, problem solving, and improving cognitive ...

The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) plays a pivotal role in the activation of myeloid cells and is ...

Linking multisensory integration to visual rehabilitation Cross-modal plasticity is the brain’s ability to reorganize itself after modifications of sensory inputs. It does allow sensory modalities to ...

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

Fans argue about whose interpretation of their favorite show is correct, but the idea of the "beholder's share" explains that ...

Credit: Photo: Professor Hartmut Schmidt Thinking, learning, feeling – all sensory perceptions are processed in the brain. Roughly 100 billion nerve cells are interconnected in the human brain.

Neurogenesis may be happening in a brain region essential for memory and learning.

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for processing color and fine spatial detail, and another that's involved ...