Reading brain activity with advanced technologies is not a new concept. However, most techniques have focused on identifying ...

Researchers have shed new light on how the brain processes and synthesizes information. Findings help solve a longstanding mystery in neuroscience. For decades, scientists have focused on how the ...

Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently.When you look at an abstract painting, study it for a ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Our brain’s memory center bears a sleek design. A peek into living tissue from human hippocampi, a brain region crucial for memory and learning, revealed relatively few cell-to-cell connections for ...

She saw an angel of mercy. You saw a sandwich. Such is the fun of visiting a museum or art gallery with a friend and gazing at an abstract painting together and then realizing you have different ...

People often feel that their inner thoughts and emotions are much richer than what they are capable of expressing in real time. Entrepreneur Elon Musk is so bothered by what he calls this “bandwidth ...

Hendrix College’s Department of Music will present “Your Brain on Art: Music and Well-Being,” an interdisciplinary concert experience inspired by research on how the arts support health and human ...

The lines on this diagram of the brain represent connections between various areas of the cerebral cortex involved in language processing. When we read, the neurons in these areas fire in precise ...