Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeurosciencePsychologyVisual Neuroscience·April 12, 2019·3 min readListeners immerse themselves in audiobooks in very different waysWhile listening to audiobooks with a captivating narrative, the inferior parietal lobe and visual cortex elicit individual meaning and flow of mental imagery.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·April 5, 2019·4 min readLike old photographs, memories fade over timeLow-level visual information fades in memory over time. However, negative emotion increases subjective memory vividness.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychologyVisual Neuroscience·April 4, 2019·5 min readAssociating colors with vowels? Almost all of us do!While only 1 in 25 people has synesthesia, a new study reports intuitions about 'sound colors' are shared by a greater percentage of people. Sound color perception is mainly driven by the vowels in language.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychologyVisual Neuroscience·March 29, 2019·3 min readCaffeine on the mind? Just seeing reminders of coffee can stimulate our brainExposure to subtle cues associated with coffee influence arousal and alertness.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·March 20, 2019·2 min readIt’s spring already? Physics explains why time flies as we ageA slower rate of image processing speeds up our perception of time as we grow older.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·March 20, 2019·4 min readHow our body ‘listens’ to vibrationsNeurons in the somatosensory cortex encode vibration frequency in a similar manner to the way in which sound pitch is encoded in the auditory cortex.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·March 19, 2019·3 min readHow Attention Helps the Brain Perceive an ObjectLow-frequency optogenetic stimulation of the visual region of the brain impairs an animal's ability to make fine sensory discriminations.Read More
FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·March 17, 2019·8 min readWith single gene insertion, blind mice regain sightGene therapy that targets retinal ganglion cells with light-sensitive cone opsins helps restore vision in mice. Researchers report a potential human treatment could be available within three years.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·February 28, 2019·5 min readNanotech Makes it Possible for Mice to See In InfraredResearchers use nanotech to enhance vision in mice, enabling them to see infrared light as well as visible light.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·February 28, 2019·6 min readMaking Sense of How the Blind ‘See’ ColorResearchers suggest blind and sighted people experience visual phenomena differently, but share a common understanding of them.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychologyVisual Neuroscience·February 22, 2019·5 min readSeeing Through Another’s Eyes: How We Use Others’ Viewpoints to Make DecisionsResearchers shed light on how we are able to effectively form mental images of how objects look to other people.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·February 22, 2019·5 min readHow the Brain Processes ImagesResearchers report signals from the retina are subjected to selective processing at the earliest neural way-station in the functional pathway connecting the retina to the visual cortex.Read More
