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 ...

This is a motion aftereffect illusion — stare at the rotating blue eye in the center of the screen without blinking, and when ...

You know that feeling when you’re in an environment where everything just feels like too much? Maybe you’re at a busy airport gate packed with toddlers screaming bloody murder, bright fluorescent ...

Human perception operates within a chaotic sensory environment, where the brain must constantly determine which signals arise from the same source. A ...

The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies ...

With 200 eyes and no human-like brain, a scallop shouldn't know where you are. And yet it does. Here's what this animal ...

Apparent neural encoding of future words may arise from the statistical structure of language itself, rather than from predictive computations in the brain.

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

Scientists have quantified what draws mosquitoes to people—which could help make better, life-saving bug traps.

This study shows that mouse V1 simultaneously encodes the ensemble mean and variance of motion, providing a robust summary‐statistic representation that persists despite single-neuron variability.

Summary: Researchers have discovered that the brain begins summarizing complex visual scenes much earlier than previously believed. In a study, researchers demonstrated that the primary visual cortex ...