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

Children who spent a lot of time on screens before the age of two showed changes in brain development that were later linked to slower decision-making and higher anxiety during their teenage years, ...

Speed training your brain could help delay developing dementia by years, according to a recent National Institutes of Health ...

A single clear image can rewire the visual brain, making later recognition faster without relying on memory systems.

A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for ...

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like telling a leaf apart from a rock. But they have struggled to build ...

Here’s what the experts found over a 20-year period.

A small team of brain researchers at South China Normal University, working with a colleague from the University of New South Wales, has found that the visual processing parts of the brain light up in ...

Researchers tracked more than 2,800 older adults for 20 years to assess whether brain-training exercises could lower the risk of dementia.

Learn how our brains store images that help us achieve flashes of insight when looking at seemingly incomprehensible visual tests.

Learning to read is not easy, but it is made more difficult for a child who cannot see the words and letters on the page correctly. It may not be a problem with their eyes, though. Even children with ...