Most of us perceive our world in designated brain areas for each sensory modality. Thanks to its unique plasticity, the visual areas of a blind person’s brain are prime real estate ready for ...

Humans and other primates are innately able to perceive fine details, vibrant colors and focus their attention on specific elements of what they are seeing at a given time. This ability is supported ...

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of neuroscience and psychology studies. Most past studies focusing on the visual cortex ...

An effort to map the way the brains of those with autism are genetically unique from neurotypical individuals has found that the differences go well beyond regions involved in social behavior and ...

People with intact hearing can use sound as an alert system for events outside their direct line of sight. This seemingly ...