Cells called astrocytes are about as abundant in the brain as neurons, but scientists have spent much less time figuring out ...

Researchers have uncovered how primate brains transform flat, 2D visual inputs into rich, 3D mental representations of objects.

Why you can’t find your keys even when they’re in plain sight: study reveals the brain’s hidden attention rhythm.

New research reveals how early-life blurry, low-color vision may help shape the brain’s visual pathways into specialized systems.

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

As per science, optical illusions are put into three main types: Literal illusions: They happen when multiple similar images ...

Recent research shows that your brain doesn’t pay attention in one smooth stream—instead, it switches focus in quick bursts, about 8 times per second. This process, called “attentional sampling,” ...

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for processing color and fine spatial detail, and another that's involved in ...

"There isn't a meaningful limit to how much information the brain can store," said Elizabeth Kensinger, a professor of ...

JERUSALEM, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Israeli researchers have discovered that the human brain does not pay attention in one smooth stream, but in quick bursts, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said in a ...