When animals move through complex visual environments, the brain cannot afford to analyze every detail one by one. Instead, ...

How does the brain see the "big picture"? A new study reveals that the primary visual cortex (V1) calculates statistical ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...

Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs. The ball and the water behave very differently, and it turns out that your brain has ...

Fostering visualization of any content (curricular or otherwise) by targeting and using the occipital lobe as the central point of processing the information is one of the strongest ways to help that ...

Closing your eyes may not help you hear better in noisy places. Keeping your eyes open can actually improve how you detect ...

Summary: It’s a common reflex: to hear a faint sound better, we squeeze our eyes shut. However, new research suggests this strategy actually backfires in noisy environments. By monitoring brain ...

Whether hitting a golf ball, catching a pass or skiing downhill, visualization increases repetitions safely without physical exertion while also reinforcing key technical and tactical focus points.

My last article focused, oddly enough…on focus—namely, how to help gifted students who are easily distracted by outside stimuli. Those of you with easily distracted students or children of your own ...