Our brain's wiring is shaped both by genes and what we experience, and the visual system is a great model for studying how ...

The vivid and beautiful world that unfolds the moment you open your eyes. However, from the perspective of a doctor who has ...

Brain self-organization, not genetic blueprinting, builds the brain's 100 trillion synaptic connections. MIT neuroscientist Ila Fiete argues in a Perspectives essay for The Transmitter that genes ...

Close your eyes and cover your ears. Much of the world around you disappears from view and hearing, yet your sense of being ...

Abstract While short-term exposure to action video games has been shown in some literature to enhance certain visual-spatial metrics, prolonged and continuous gaming sessions—specifically of fast-pace ...

When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers found eight body-like maps in the visual cortex that organize what we see ...

A new hypothesis links the brain’s crossed wiring to ancient visual maps, proposing that later sensory and motor pathways built on an inherited arrangement.

Elon Musk announced that Neuralink’s experimental ‘Blindsight’ brain-computer interface is technically complete and pending ...

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 ...