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This optical illusion confuses the brain, revealing how perception works and misfires. It also shows links between visual ...

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like telling a leaf apart from a rock. But they have struggled to build ...

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Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what ...

Aimlessly wandering around a city or exploring the new mall may seem unproductive, but new research from HHMI's Janelia ...

New research into the way the brain learns could help us better understand how our brains pick up new information and process ...

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How does your brain instantly know how to move through new places? A new study helps explain the science behind your internal ...

Brain scans show humans instantly detect possible actions like walking or swimming from images. Visual areas encode this ...