When you watch someone’s hand get hit in a movie, you flinch. Same for feet, face, or any body part. Nature study explains why ...

UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

Researchers collaborating on a BRAIN Initiative project unveiled the most comprehensive map of developing mammalian brains to ...

Ultra-high-field brain scans reveal integrated maps of vision and touch, highlighting the brain's role in embodied perception ...

An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, working with the Paul Scherrer Institute, have developed a new imaging protocol to capture mouse brain cell connections in ...

An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, working with the Paul Scherrer Institute, have developed a new imaging ...

An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, working with the Paul Scherrer Institute, has ...

New research published in Imaging Neuroscience suggests that general intelligence is supported by the brain’s ability to ...

A key challenge is that human thinking is inherently messy. Our thoughts rarely come to us in neat, linear sequences of connected information. Instead, the human brain is more like a chaotic tangle of ...

Reading brain activity with advanced technologies is not a new concept. However, most techniques have focused on identifying single words associated with an object or action a person is seeing or ...