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Without attention, you can see a lot – but not everything
In a nutshell: Novel research shows that we can be conscious of a face’s gender even when paying little or no attention to it. Read more
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The brain uses the same pathways when we produce speech and predict sounds
In a nutshell: By comparing brain activity when individuals are making sounds, anticipating forthcoming sounds or listening to sounds passively, researchers have shown that the same pathways are involved. Read more
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Redrawing the map of brain connections involved in extinguishing learned fear
In a nutshell: The identification of a new connection in the brain involved in reducing the fear response upends the current model of fear extinction. Read more
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Polar expedition: mapping connections at the tip of the brain
In a nutshell: Humans are not the only primate species to have subdivisions in the frontopolar cortex. Read more
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What’s that? How the brain makes sense of objects in surprising and unsurprising places
In a nutshell: Several areas of the brain involved in processing visual information respond differently depending on whether an object is in an expected or an unexpected location. Read more
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A part of the brain can still see – even if you can’t
In a nutshell: Even if the primary visual cortex is damaged — causing blindness — the pathway that transmits visual information from the retina is not completely destroyed. The penultimate stop on the pathway still processes visual information, even if it has nowhere… Read more
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In-phase doesn’t help, anti-phase doesn’t hinder
In a nutshell: In-phase or anti-phase electrical stimulation of the brain’s hemispheres does not affect the ability to track objects moving between the left and right fields of vision. Read more
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Reliving suppressed fear
In a nutshell: A newly identified brain circuit reignites the fear response, even after treatment to suppress it. Read more
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Your brain is full of spots, and somebody has counted all of them
In a nutshell: The distribution of highly active cells in the brain’s visual processing area reveals similarities between humans and other primates. Read more
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Rhythmic brain waves determine what you see – or don’t see
In a nutshell: Oscillations in brain activity influence how well we perceive objects in both expected and unexpected locations. Read more
