The human brain builds mental representations of the world based on the signals and information detected via the human senses. While we perceive simultaneously occurring sensory stimuli as being ...

A new study showcases how brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between ourselves and the outside world ...

The results revealed that the speed of alpha brain waves in the parietal cortex plays a key role. This region of the brain ...

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

The visual information (in the form of optical flow) of the external world is received by the retina, converted into spike trains by retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), and then processed layer by ...

Researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet looked at how the brain combines visual and tactile (touch-related) signals ...

(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 ...

So how does the brain keep track of when different sensory signals come in from the body? It relies on certain rhythmic waves ...

In A Nutshell Alpha brain waves cycling at 8-13 times per second determine how wide your “temporal binding window,” or the ...