Vision loss has long been treated as a one-way street, a devastating endpoint rather than a problem the brain might quietly ...

The brain shows a capacity to recover from traumatic injury, which somewhat contradicts the widely accepted idea that neurons ...

The brain shows a capacity to recover from traumatic injury, which somewhat contradicts the widely accepted idea that neurons do not regenerate.

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the centre of the human brain. This aids our understanding ...

Spot the hidden number 3 in a 9-second brain teaser optical illusion that tests observation, IQ, and visual perception skills ...

Researchers at Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF), led by Prof. Vincent Bonin, have published two new studies uncovering how visual information is processed and distributed in the brain. The ...

Blindness affects millions of people worldwide and severely limits their independence, daily functioning, and overall quality of life. In Spain, the prevalence of blindness is estimated at 0.17% , ...

Every day, various types of sensory information fromthe external environment are transferred to the brainthrough different modalities and then processed to generate a series of coping behaviors. Among ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as ...

Picture an apple, any apple. As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain activity that’s surprisingly similar to what ...