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 ...

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 ...

How does your brain instantly know how to move through new places? A new study helps explain the science behind your internal GPS.

Their newly proposed, visual system-inspired computational techniques, dubbed all-topographic neural networks (All-TNNs), are introduced in a paper published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Activity levels in a specific region of the brain predict whether we think something is real, irrespective of whether we've seen it or imagined it.

Summary: Researchers have developed a retinal prosthesis made of tellurium nanowires that restores partial vision in blind mice and enables near-infrared vision in primates. The implant, woven into a ...

During imagination, many of the same brain regions activate in the same manner as when you see a real apple. Until recently, it remained unclear how the brain distinguishes between these real and ...

June 5, 2025 – Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified which brain circuits are vital for visual acuity and how they are affected by damaged retinal cells.

It may seem remarkable but a study shows that humans could learn to “see” without their eyes, by using echolocation, much as bats do.