Brain’s fill-in tricks: Special neurons in the visual cortex help complete missing or ambiguous patterns, creating illusions that feel real. Mindset and perception: What you see first in an illusion ...

Imagine arriving at a busy location with people moving around and a multitude of visual and other sensory cues vying for your attention. How does the brain integrate such floods of sensory information ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in Trieste, published in PLOS Computational Biology. The research shows that, ...

What was studied: Researchers examined how negative emotions affect attention in people with high borderline personality traits using brain wave recordings during visual tasks. Key brain findings: ...

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