A wireless brain implant designed to restore artificial vision has been successfully implanted in ...

A brain that develops in the deprivation of one sense reorganises itself in surprising ways, revealing remarkable neuroplasticity. Researchers studied the brain activity of young congenitally deaf and ...

Imagine yourself sometime in the far future aboard a routine rocket to Mars. Someone just spilled their drink. Without gravity, it collects in floating blobs that ripple right before your eyes. Now ...

When animals move through complex visual environments, the brain cannot afford to analyze every detail one by one. Instead, it rapidly extracts the overall structure of the scene—for example, the mean ...

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...

Picture every synapse in your brain as a phone line. About 70% of them are live, carrying signals right now. But according to ...

New Haven, Conn. — Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people ...