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

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

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

Research shows the brain during prayer activates social cognition networks, reduces stress, and builds measurable neural ...

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

Extensive practice can rewire the brain so a learned skill runs more automatically, making some forms of true multitasking ...

Learn from a neurosurgeon four types of tumours that can cause eye problems, making it important to take vision changes seriously.  | Health ...

Recent research has shown how the brain may compensate for reduced visual input during walking by reinforcing functional ...

Research in mice reveals a new way that brain plasticity is controlled — providing a long-awaited insight into how critical periods of learning close in early life. Scientists discovered that the ...

A wireless intracortical architecture targets total blindness by circumventing nonfunctional retinas and optic nerves, positioning direct visual cortex stimulation as the principal advanced ...

Some discoveries change the way we view the human body. In 2021, researchers described what they saw when they had examined skin-biopsy samples that included tattoos: The ink particles had traveled ...