A tennis return can look almost automatic. The ball comes off the racket, crosses the court in a blur, and somehow a player ...

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 ...

A new study reveals the brain doesn’t rely on a single clock but builds our sense of time through multiple stages across ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...

How does the brain see the "big picture"? A new study reveals that the primary visual cortex (V1) calculates statistical ...

Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs. The ball and the water behave very differently, and it turns out that your brain has ...

A groundbreaking fMRI study has mapped the exact neural shifts of a self-induced visionary state. Researchers discovered that ...

Meta AI describes a system that predicts fMRI-measured brain responses during naturalistic film viewing by jointly modeling ...

Researchers found that expert birders show structural differences in areas linked to attention and perception.

My last article focused, oddly enough…on focus—namely, how to help gifted students who are easily distracted by outside stimuli. Those of you with easily distracted students or children of your own ...