The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

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 ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

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 ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

In this interview conducted at the Society for Neuroscience's Neuroscience 2023, we explore the fascinating world of neuroscience with Professor Michael Stryker, a leading expert with over four ...

Imagine yourself sometime in the far future aboard a routine rocket to Mars. Someone just spilled their drink. Without gravity, it collects in floating blobs that ripple right before your eyes. Now ...

A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders shows that individuals with depression exhibit slower and less ...

We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an ...

Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these ...