Here's a visual illusion that catches the brain in the act of making up color. Arrange a set of black spokes radiating from a ...

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of neuroscience and psychology studies. Most past studies focusing on the visual cortex ...

In the brain, visual information is processed step by step along a hierarchy of regions. The primary visual cortex (V1) is the first cortical stage that receives visual input from the eyes and is ...

How does the brain perceive time? A new fMRI study identifies a three-stage neural relay from the visual cortex to the frontal regions that constructs our subjective experience of duration and timing.

Every illusion has a backstage crew. New research shows the brain’s own “puppet strings”—special neurons that quietly tug our perception—help us see edges and shapes that don’t actually exist. When ...

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...

The same brain cells activate when you see something and when you imagine it, helping explain why mental images can feel so ...

A new study reveals the brain doesn’t rely on a single clock but builds our sense of time through multiple stages across ...

A new review proposes that categorization is a predictive brain function that prepares action before perception. Drawing on ...