Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped ...

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

Learn the memory palace technique with absurd imagery like hairbrush and soy sauce, so you recall lists and facts faster.

MIT scientists found that what we see is strongly influenced by how alert or active we are. Parts of the brain responsible for planning and control send specialized signals that either boost or quiet ...

Researchers uncovered an unexpected form of neural resilience: after traumatic injury, surviving retinal cells in mice grow new branches that reestablish lost connections in the brain’s visual system, ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...

A closed-loop cortical implant generates functional percepts of shape, motion, and letters in two individuals with acquired ...

UNC School of Medicine researchers used MRI to document crucial differences in the visual processing system in the brains of infants who went on to be diagnosed with autism. CHAPEL HILL, ...

My last article focused, oddly enough…on focus—namely, how to help gifted students who are easily distracted by outside stimuli. Those of you with easily distracted students or children of your own ...