We see not just with our eyes, but with our brains. A mosaic of specialized areas in a brain region known as the visual cortex interprets different sights, helping us identify everything from solid ...

TL;DR• Turtles can detect unexpected visual changes regardless of viewing angle. • This ability was previously thought to exist only in mammalian ...

It’s not just ‘too much scrolling.’ Here’s how screen sickness affects you on a physiological level, disrupting your balance and evolutionary failsafes.

New research published in BMC Psychology suggests that the structural wiring of the brain may play a significant role in how people solve problems through sudden insight. The study indicates that ...

Scientists have discovered that turtles possess advanced visual processing abilities once thought to be unique to mammals.

Turtles are able to grasp that the same object seen from different angles is not a different object, an important trait for ...

Suppressing laughter in solemn settings can backfire. Here’s what brain science says about why ‘church giggles’ feel unstoppable.

What if the pictures in your mind were not just faint impressions? Hyperphantasia shows how imagination can become both a ...

This is an important study that identifies the developmental time window during which re-expression of TCF4 mutated in Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, can rescue phenotypic features of brain function in a TCF4 ...