People with hyper-visual brains often have synesthesia, Zeman said, in which the brain experiences more than one sense simultaneously, such as tasting colors, feeling sounds or assigning specific ...

People who can no longer move or speak may soon have a new option: an implanted device that links their brain to a computer.

Paradromics, a brain-computer-interface startup, inserted its brain implant in a person—briefly—in an early test of its technology.

N euroscientists usually investigate one brain at a time. They observe how neurons fire as a person reads certain words, for example, or plays a video game. As social animals, however, those same ...

In experiments with healthy volunteers undergoing functional MRI imaging, scientists have found increased activity in two ...

The researchers don't know why the 12 brains they tested from people who had dementia had more plastic than those that didn't and don't know if it's cause or effect. But they're leaning toward effect.

Meet two women with unusual ways of experiencing the world: One cannot revisualize people or events, while the other may imagine too much.