How does the brain see the "big picture"? A new study reveals that the primary visual cortex (V1) calculates statistical ...
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The McCollough effect: A trippy optical illusion that can lock into your brain for 85 days
Most optical illusions last for a few fleeting moments when you're staring at the book, screen, or whatever medium the ...
How does the brain perceive time? A new fMRI study identifies a three-stage neural relay from the visual cortex to the frontal regions that constructs our subjective experience of duration and timing.
A study shows the primary visual cortex encodes both mean motion, and variability in complex scenes, revealing early-stage ...
A tennis return can look almost automatic. The ball comes off the racket, crosses the court in a blur, and somehow a player ...
A new study reveals the brain doesn’t rely on a single clock but builds our sense of time through multiple stages across ...
Every illusion has a backstage crew. New research shows the brain’s own “puppet strings”—special neurons that quietly tug our perception—help us see edges and shapes that don’t actually exist. When ...
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 ...
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