The court struck down the voting map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in a move that could make it harder for ...

When a writer comes up with a striking metaphor, when an engineer solves a tricky problem by combining seemingly unrelated ...

Researchers identify the rostral prefrontal cortex as the essential bridge between spontaneous and executive brain networks that drives creativity.

The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies ...

Scientists have created the first detailed map of smell receptors in the nose, catching up with similar achievements in sight ...

Does the deaf brain "see" with its ears? New research shows the auditory cortex maps visual space through selective ...

Modality-agnostic decoders leverage modality-invariant representations in human subjects' brain activity to predict stimuli irrespective of their modality (image, text, mental imagery).

Daniel Kish lost both eyes to retinal cancer before he was two years old. By the time he was a teenager, he was mountain biking through traffic and hiking solo in the wilderness, navigating entirely ...

The visual cortex is the part of the brain that enables visual perception. In this area millions of nerve cells, called neurons, process stimuli from the outside world. They only react when objects ...

A team of researchers recently found that three parts of the brain are especially relevant to the experience of consciousness. After scanning the brains of subjects, the researchers identified reduced ...

These terms are now often conflated. In foundational reconstruction and decoding literature their separation has been strict for good reasons: the tasks differ in difficulty, failure modes, what can ...