A new study by biomedical engineers and neuroscientists shows that the brain's visual regions play an active role in making sense of information.

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

A team of researchers at UCL and UCLH have identified the key brain regions that are essential for logical thinking and problem solving.

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

A new study questions the longstanding view that the visual system is divided into two pathways, one for object-recognition and the other for spatial tasks. Using computational vision models, ...