The wiring and rewiring of the brain never ends. Neural pathways are constantly being reshaped as we interact with the world ...

By activating the visual cortex electrically, those modules generate simple spots or patterns of light that the brain can try to make sense of.

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...

Rather than having distinct departments for blindness, paralysis and sensory disorders, scientists are developing a unified ...

Recent theoretical and empirical work on predictive processing and brain plasticity may help explain both the onset of and ...

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has shown that nerve ...

Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana is challenging a story neuroscience has told for decades. According to the conventional account ...