To understand how the brain works, researchers typically present study subjects in a brain scanner with simple stimuli, like a number against a black background, to see which regions of the brain ...

Understanding the mechanisms for consciousness is arguably one of the most intriguing questions of modern neuroscience. Why are some visual stimuli consciously perceived, whereas others remain ...

Whenever something bad happens to us, brain systems responsible for mediating emotions kick in to prevent it from happening again. When we get stung by a wasp, the association between pain and wasps ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Visual working memory is the cognitive system that holds visual information active to make it resistant to interference from new perceptual ...

Ehsan Arabzadeh, Erik Zorzin, and Mathew Diamond work with rats to investigate how sensory receptors extract fundamental features from complex and diverse stimuli to encode texture. Not much is known ...

Given the limited capacity of our attention, we only process a small amount of the sights, sounds, and sensations that reach our senses at any given moment -- what happens to the stimuli that reach ...

When video game players are robbing a bank or strolling the crime-ridden streets of downtown Miami while playing “Grand Theft Auto,” they are focusing on the police in their way and the firearms in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Whether conscious perception requires attention remains a topic of intense debate. While certain complex stimuli such as faces and animals can ...