A new study suggests that a little-known region deep in the brain could be crucial for preserving physical strength as we age ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part ...

Healthy aging induces parallel changes in brain functional activity and structural morphology, yet the interplay between ...

Summary: New research reveals that neurons in the visual cortex are far more adaptable than previously thought, responding dynamically to complex stimuli during object recognition tasks. While visual ...

This study builds on previous findings showing modular organization of primate visual cortical areas by presenting important results about the cortical processing of color, disparity, and naturalistic ...

Still images from two sample video stimuli representing each of the three animate (yellow) conditions: dog (blue), human (pink), cat (green) and the inanimate condition: car (grey) and the design of a ...

Using fMRI data collected from people viewing film clips, MIT neuroscientists created a comprehensive map of the cerebral cortex, identifying 24 networks that perform specific functions. The cerebral ...