Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have collaborated with several universities to develop a new ...

In the brain, not all blood flow is created equal. RIKEN researchers have developed a detailed cortical layer map of the ...

The animate-inanimate category distinction is one of the general organizing principles in the primate high-level visual cortex. Much less is known about the visual cortical representations of animacy ...

Brain puzzles are one of the finest means of analyzing and enhancing cognitive skills. If you solve a puzzle, logic, ...

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain's visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a ...

By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, Johns Hopkins University ...

Think you have sharp eyes? Test your IQ with this optical illusion challenge! Find the hidden word ‘BINGO’ in just 5 seconds and prove your brainpower!

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: ...

function. Motion, color, light and shadow: everything we see is the result of complex computations in our brain -- or, more precisely, in the visual cortex. This is where stimuli that hit our ...

Researchers have identified a region in the brain's visual cortex that responds to food and have developed a theoretical framework that could explain the origins of this selectivity. The team ...