Your brain becomes comfortable with this reversed image, so when you see a photo, it appears jarring and unfamiliar.

Share on Pinterest Does daydreaming have unexpected benefits for the brain? Image credit: Hernandez & Sorokina/Stocksy. The workings of the brain are complex, and research about brain activity is ...

The visual cortex stores and remembers individual images, but when they are grouped into a sequence, mice can't recognize that without guidance from the hippocampus, according to a new study. A new ...

A flash fiction contest hosted by The Hopkins Review uses short stories to push the boundaries of psychology research ...

MRI technology from Duke-led effort reveals the entire mouse brain in the highest resolution DURHAM, N.C. – Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is how we visualize soft, watery tissue that is hard to ...

All memory storage devices, from your brain to the RAM in your computer, store information by changing their physical qualities. Over 130 years ago, pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal ...

During the early thirties, the brain’s wiring pattern moves into what the researchers describe as the adult mode. This adult ...

Memory is vital for identity and adapts to lifestyle. Experts reveal science-backed habits to boost memory and learning.

Harvard and Google Research have released a startlingly deep dive into the human brain, mapping thousands of cells and millions of synapses in a poppy seed-sized sample of brain tissue. The effort ...