Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

The results revealed that the speed of alpha brain waves in the parietal cortex plays a key role. This region of the brain ...

The human brain builds mental representations of the world based on the signals and information detected via the human senses. While we perceive simultaneously occurring sensory stimuli as being ...

Researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet looked at how the brain combines visual and tactile (touch-related) signals ...

So how does the brain keep track of when different sensory signals come in from the body? It relies on certain rhythmic waves ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists has identified a mechanism that corrects visual distortions caused by movement in animals. The study, ...

In A Nutshell Alpha brain waves cycling at 8-13 times per second determine how wide your “temporal binding window,” or the ...

The next time you reach for a memory or make a quick choice, a storm of tiny signals races through your brain. Scientists can ...

Researchers find that communication between key brain regions shortly after injury may predict long-term functional recovery ...