Recent theoretical and empirical work on predictive processing and brain plasticity may help explain both the onset of and ...

New research from the University of Kansas uses network science to determine why people make mistakes when lip-reading. Michael Vitevitch, professor of speech-language-hearing at KU, and his ...

Single neurons in mouse sensorimotor cortex are organized by their activity features into distinct subpopulations with area-spanning footprints whose boundaries align closely with anatomical and ...

Much like camera settings—filters, flashes and focus—affect what we notice in a final photo, the way scientists measure ...

Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana is challenging a story neuroscience has told for decades. According to the conventional account ...

Summary: For the average viewer, watching a cinematic film feels entirely effortless. We simultaneously digest spoken dialogue, track microscopic facial expressions, notice subtle background musical ...

Researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon have for the first time managed to identify with an imaging technique whether nervous impulses in the brain of rats are flowing in a "bottom-up" ...

The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies reveal. By Emily Anthes Over the last century, scientists have mapped several ...

Summary: Whether it’s Jannik Sinner timing a 100 mph serve or you judging how long to wait at a yellow light, the brain is constantly calculating the passage of time. A new study has mapped the ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? A new package of papers examines the largest map yet of mammalian brain tissue. The ...

In a new study, researchers created an AI model of the mouse visual cortex that predicts neuronal responses to visual images. Much as a pilot might practice maneuvers in a flight simulator, scientists ...