Imagination is one of the most powerful things our brains can do. We can relive past events while taking a walk, rehearse ...

Where does imagination come from? A new fMRI study in Neuron reveals that mental imagery emerges from the brain's association ...

How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in everyday life, perceive the duration of events around us? The answer lies in how ...

How does the brain perceive time? A new fMRI study identifies a three-stage neural relay from the visual cortex to the frontal regions that constructs our subjective experience of duration and timing.

Studies show that your brain doesn’t perceive the world exactly as it is. Instead, it “fills in gaps in perception.” The first layer of your brain’s primary visual cortex helps to decide what reality ...

Learn how imagination works in the brain and why it may come from higher-level systems, not just a replay of sensory experiences.

A tennis return can look almost automatic. The ball comes off the racket, crosses the court in a blur, and somehow a player ...

A new advanced imaging study led by scientists from the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London (ICL), has looked at what happens in people's brains when they take the potent ...

As a person ages, perception declines, accompanied by augmented brain activity. Learning and training may ameliorate age-related degradation of perception, but age-related brain changes cannot be ...