Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like telling a leaf apart from a rock. But they have struggled to build ...

New research reveals that the brain may be learning even during unstructured, aimless exploration. By recording activity in ...

Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what ...

We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...

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

Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what babies see—but the authors ...

New research shows that the human brain automatically recognizes what actions an environment affords—like walking, climbing, or swimming—even without conscious thought.

A new meta-analysis suggests that people with major depressive disorder have lower levels of the brain antioxidant ...