This video examines three animals often dismissed as unremarkable and compares them based on biological performance. Each ...

Your brain might have a hidden neural layer that puts you in touch with the same “figures” during altered states of ...

Semantic Extension, Idioms and Proverbs, Cultural Semantics, Cognitive Semantics Share and Cite: Di, J.Y. (2026) A Semantic Analysis of “Peach” in Chinese and Japanese. Open Access Library Journal, 13 ...

An ambitious effort to create a paradigm explaning near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people’s brushes with death, top University of Virginia ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an ...

Psychological experiments have investigated conditions similar to those that existed during the Minnesota incident and could ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

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Bilal Haider receives funding from NIH and the Simons Foundation. Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bilal Haider, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Despite the nursery ...

Gestalt theory in design isn’t one of those rules we hear about. It is an insight into our psychophysical makeup and relationship with the environment. The brain is a pattern-seeking device. In a ...