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The result supports earlier studies that used brain imaging to find evidence that the same neural circuits are involved in ...

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 ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Associate professor Dong Song (L) and first author Xiwei She (R) discuss their machine learning model. (CREDIT: USC) Scientists ...

Cells long thought to play a secondary role in brain function build their own far-reaching connections, according to a new ...

A new study provides a "guidebook" for brain implants, proving that flexible polyimide materials significantly reduce brain ...

In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...