(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers report that only a small ...

In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.

It's often called the mind's eye. "I can look at an object in the world around me, but I can also close my eyes and imagine the object," says Varun Wadia, a brain scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

New evidence finds that sight and imagination rely on the same neurons and use the same neural code. In the brain, objects seen and imagined follow the same neural path It's often called the mind's ...

The eye and the mind's eye: New evidence finds that sight and imagination rely on the same neurons and use the same neural code. (Marco Bottigelli | Getty Images) It's often called the mind's eye. "I ...