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

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

A new optical illusion excellently illustrates just how finicky our eyes are when it comes to perceiving colors.

As a person ages, perception declines, accompanied by augmented brain activity. Learning and training may ameliorate age-related degradation of perception, but age-related brain changes cannot be ...

Evoked responses to the congruent and incongruent target words 'cheap' or 'expensive' in the price judgment task (A–C) and the semantic task (D). The graph shows responses to the target words ...

(Medical Xpress)—Oxford University researchers have shown that measuring a type of brain activity in an individual under anaesthetic offers the clearest picture yet of degrees of perceptual awareness ...

Research findings reinforce new approaches in psychology, using psychedelic substances under medical supervision to treat certain clinical conditions. Psychedelic substances are increasingly being ...

A new advanced imaging study led by scientists from the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London (ICL), has looked at what happens in people's brains when they take the potent ...