When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery?

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

One notable missing feature in most ANN models is top-down feedback, i.e. projections from higher-order layers to lower-order layers in the network. Top-down feedback is ubiquitous in the brain, and ...

Our findings reveal that multisensory perceptual learning actively engages auditory cortex (AC) neurons in both visual ... primary site of these circuit modifications. A recent study by Clayton et al.

This learning takes place in the primary motor cortex—a region of the brain responsible for planning and executing voluntary movements. From this cortical "command center," signals are sent via ...