Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body's energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you're ...

A brain that develops in the deprivation of one sense reorganizes itself in surprising ways, revealing remarkable ...

How does the brain create mental images? A new study reveals that visual imagination and perception share a common neural code.

Think you can trust your eyes? Think again. What feels undeniable at first glance is sometimes a surprise, an illusion, or an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blindness affects millions of people worldwide and severely limits their independence, daily functioning, and overall quality of life. In Spain, the prevalence of blindness is estimated at 0.17% , ...

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