We all have negative thoughts from time to time. But what if those fleeting moments of pessimism were doing more than just dampening your mood? According to new research, the way you think doesn't ...

Brain tissue is an optical mess. Water, lipids, and tangled cellular membranes all bend light in different directions. If ...

While past research has hinted at an overlap in relevant brain regions, the new work drills down to the cellular level. The ...

New research suggests artificial sweeteners can register more like real sugar when you expect them to, highlighting how ...

A new study finds that looking at something and imagining it triggers the same exact process in the brain. It's also very similar to the process artificial intelligence uses to create an image.

Scientists who use imaging to understand the brain's complexity often focus on the strongest signals and ignore the rest. But this strategy, researchers warn, may reveal only the tip of the iceberg. A ...

The result supports earlier studies that used brain imaging to find evidence that the same neural circuits are involved in ...

Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have developed an active pixel power control system that adjusts laser brightness pixel-by-pixel during brain imaging. The technique ...

In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...