New research shows how psychedelics alter visual processing and boost memory-linked brain circuits to generate hallucinations, revealing mechanisms with therapeutic implications.

The unreliability of episodic memory may seem at odds with its ability to fine-tune our perceptual capacities. Less error-prone, episodic memories related to dreams, hyper-focus, and expertise may ...

Scientists from Boston University, Queensland University of Technology, and the University of Toronto are advancing a shared idea about how the mind works. They argue that the same brain systems used ...

A recent study published in Nature Neuroscience reports that retinotopic coding may determine how information from the retina is processed in the brain cortex. How does sensory signaling interact with ...

Our memories are rich in detail: we can vividly recall the color of our home, the layout of our kitchen, or the front of our favorite cafe . How the brain encodes this information has long puzzled ...

The room dissolves into a rushing collage of childhood bedrooms, long-forgotten faces and the exact shade of blue from an old ...

In Plato's allegory of the cave, a person stands inside a cavern with a fire at their back, watching the shadows formed by the fire on the wall. The person believes the shadows are their reality, not ...

Tel Aviv University researchers developed a new learning method for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that can potentially improve visual perception and published their work in Current ...

Recent research suggests that repeated "replays" of episodic memories—i.e., memories of personal episodes from our past—can help improve our ability to visually distinguish between scenes, faces, and ...