Researchers reveal how modeling the human brain’s hidden wiring could push AI beyond its current limits into human-like ...

Scientists have discovered that organoids possess both the molecular and cellular characteristics of a developing brain. These experiments pose questions about what it means to be aware, feel and ...

New findings from studies in both people and animals are revealing clues about how sensory information and cognitive processes interact in the brain to produce our perception of the world. The ...

Human perception is based on mathematically optimal principles, but the brain implements those principles imperfectly, suggests new research. Share: Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIN Email ...

Classical psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline are known for activating the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor, but a new ...

Optical illusions have long fascinated scientists, artists, and everyday viewers. These visual puzzles can make stationary objects appear to move, straight lines look bent, or colours seem to change ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have developed a technique in which a computer models visual perception by monitoring human brain signals. In a way, it is as if the computer tries to ...

Viewed this way, “Mind-Body medicine” is the tail wagging the dog, to put it mildly.

Now, though, a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B has uncovered how the human brain's perception of pain is influenced by instructions—such as whether to perceive pain as ...

"Which brain areas are responsible for this perception of touch, however, is still largely unknown," says Privatdozent Dr. Burkhard Pleger, neurologist at the Berufsgenossenschaftlichen Kliniken ...

Your Brain: Perception Deception. Season 50 Episode 9 ... ANDRÉ FENTON: To answer that question would be perhaps the highest human achievement to date. DANIELA SCHILLER: I mean, ...

Researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have decoded brain maps of human color perception. The findings, published today in Current Biology, open a window into how color processing is ...