Compared to novices, seasoned birders had denser, more structurally complex brain regions involved with tasks like object ...

Getting older comes with its fair share of worries, and for many people, keeping their mind sharp sits near the top of the ...

Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs. The ball and the water behave very differently, and it turns out that your brain has ...

Researchers at Loughborough University have found that reduced visual processing speed can flag dementia risk as many as 12 ...

Whether we're staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

A new study reveals the brain doesn’t rely on a single clock but builds our sense of time through multiple stages across ...

In A Nutshell Scientists used a high-powered MRI scanner to show the brain may process brief durations through three distinct ...

How does the brain create mental images? A new study reveals that visual imagination and perception share a common neural code.

Critical flicker fusion (CFF), a measure of visual processing speed, predicts executive function in younger and older adults and may be helpful in predicting decline in executive function, say ...