In A Nutshell Scientists used a high-powered MRI scanner to show the brain may process brief durations through three distinct ...

How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in everyday life, perceive the duration of events around us? The answer lies in how ...

A new study reveals the brain doesn’t rely on a single clock but builds our sense of time through multiple stages across ...

Where does imagination come from? A new fMRI study in Neuron reveals that mental imagery emerges from the brain's association ...

Inside the Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at ASU, researchers investigate how the brain turns sensory signals into meaningful perception. Led by Professor Gi-Yeul Bae at the Department of ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

Imagination is one of the most powerful things our brains can do. We can relive past events while taking a walk, rehearse ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a distributed set of interconnected brain regions that has long been associated with ...

A tiny region in the brain works like a reset button that separates memory of one meaningful event from the next. Without this reset mechanism, moments could blur together and lead to the kinds of ...

Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs.

Horses are beautiful, but—hippos are ugly. Why? Why does the human mind see beauty in some images and ugliness in others? Is the perception of beauty intrinsic to how the brain processes visual ...