A team of neurobiologists at Harvard Medical School's Howard Hughes Medical Institute has uncovered the neural mechanism ...

Ever been caught in the crossfire of a wet dog firing droplets of water away from their fur with a mad shake? Well, they can't help it. Scientists have discovered the underlying mechanism that drives ...

The visual perception of optical stimuli demands high performance from the brain. Every second, the eyes absorb more than 10 ...

A research team has been investigating the question of how we perceive a stable environment despite constant eye movements. The result: rapid and smooth eye movements are based on different mechanisms ...

Motion illusions override the eye’s compensatory mechanisms for stabilizing movements. The brain works intensively to process ...

It is the responsibility of every concerned citizen to get out and vote. If every Christian voted based on biblical ...

The data the team had access to represent an average of the subjects’ brain activity, so future research could look to map ...

Data is power. According to Dinesh Bharadia, an associate professor at UC San Diego in the Department of Electrical and ...

A new study reveals how the brain compensates for rapid eye movements, maintaining a stable visual perception despite dynamic ...

This behavior is caused by a specific receptor in the skin of mammals, called C-LTMR, which responds to stimuli like water ...

By scanning the brains of people while they watched movie clips, neuroscientists have created the most detailed functional map of the brain to date. The fMRI analysis shows how different brain ...

By analyzing fMRI scans of people watching films, neuroscientists have created a comprehensive functional map of the brain, ...