People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

The eyes may reveal how experiences are recalled, according to new Baycrest research that suggests that shifts in eye movements play a critical role in memory retrieval. The findings offer new insight ...

A study of U.S. veterans found that their episodic visual memory, motor learning, and sustained visual attention improved after treatment for PTSD. The magnitude of these improvements was associated ...

While you might assume these people are just obsessive neat freaks, the truth about why some maintain showroom-perfect car ...

This is an important study that identifies the developmental time window during which re-expression of TCF4 mutated in Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, can rescue phenotypic features of brain function in a TCF4 ...

Researchers discover how much inner-ear damage it takes to affect balance, showing why small declines can trigger major symptoms.

My work comes out of an anxious need to control time and space on a limited human scale, which is the scale of a painting, a ...

A multivariate analysis of electroencephalography activity reveals super-additive enhancements to the neural encoding of audiovisual stimuli, providing new insights into how the brain integrates ...

Background Motor and cognitive dysfunctions are common and disabling features in multiple sclerosis (MS) that remain challenging to treat. Here, we aimed to explore the effect of exergames as a ...

It might seem like a harmless party trick or a childhood game, but balancing on one leg for just ten seconds could reveal far ...

Anesthetizing the retina of a “lazy” eye for just two days can restore vision in mice.

A short clip from a 2007 documentary by Werner Herzog recently resurfaced online, leaving viewers intrigued. In it, an Adelie penguin abruptly breaks away from its group for no particular reason.