From viral dance challenges to celebrity endorsements of the latest fashion trends, social media dictates much of our modern ...

People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

Our eyes alone do not provide us with a continuous and stable view of the world. They jump several times each second in rapid movements called saccades. Because the eye projects the world onto the ...

Mixed reality promises shared digital spaces. But what if collaborators see different worlds? New research reveals how even ...

The visceral substrate of selfhood is not an add-on to cognitive self-awareness; in many frameworks, it is its foundation. Neuroimaging shows the anterior insula co-activating with the medial ...

Modern warfare targets perception, using psyops, disinformation, influencers, data profiling, and emerging neurotechnology to ...

The fear of speaking a foreign language is often talked about, but what about something that is just as important during a conversation – listening? Not being able to understand what the other person ...

A series of recent brain-imaging studies has begun to explain a central mystery of the psychedelic experience: why people on psilocybin report that memories seem to blend with what they are actually ...