When visual information enters the brain, it travels through ... have hypothesized that the primate visual system is divided into two pathways: the ventral stream, which performs object ...

Flashes of insight trigger activity in the brain’s hippocampus. This cashew-shaped structure is buried deep within the ...

A schematic view of the main findings, adapting from a brain figure in the study. Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language ...

A new study reveals that you're more likely to remember solutions from aha moments than ones you reach intentionally.

That “aha” moment when you come back to Wordle or Connections and immediately figure it out? Something fascinating is going on in your brain. A new study using functional magnetic resonance imaging ...

Our findings challenge the traditional view that early sensory areas in the brain are simply "looking" or "recording" visual input. In fact, the human brain's visual system actively reshapes how ...

When a person remembers their friend telling them a funny story, they associate the sound of that friend talking with the appearance of that friend speaking and laughing. How does the human brain form ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study.