Michael Jackson's classic transformation from a panther to a human during the music video "Black and White" may cause confusion upon first viewing for good reason. Now neuroscientists have used a ...

Understanding how the brain recognizes objects is a central challenge for understanding human vision, and for designing artificial vision systems. (No computer system comes close to human vision.) A ...

Explore the temporal-contiguity effect as it links memories from the 2016 US Presidential election in a revealing new study. The results show that events that occur around the same time are linked in ...

The first and most basic principle to keep in mind is the multimedia principle, which dictates that people learn better from words and pictures together than from either alone. Our brains process ...

In work that could aid efforts to develop more brain-like computer vision systems, MIT neuroscientists have tricked the visual brain into confusing one object with another, thereby demonstrating that ...