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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is obsessed with codifying your biology. First it was scanning your eyeballs — and now it’s scanning your thoughts. The insight is based on a new hiring decision by Altman. He’s ...

Just as a single night of insomnia may leave you feeling groggy and cranky, solid slumber can help you feel rested and ready to take on the day. How well you sleep over time, however, can influence ...

If we can fully map the structure of our brains, will we be able to understand how they work? That is the goal of researchers attempting to build a wiring diagram, or connectome, of our neural ...