A new brain decoding method called mind captioning can generate accurate text descriptions of what a person is seeing or recalling—without relying on the brain's language system.

Vision is one of the most fundamental senses, shaping how we perceive, navigate and interact with the world around us. Yet for more than 12 million Americans living with visual impairments, even small ...

New research shows that the superior colliculus, a primitive brain region, can independently interpret visual information.

Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

The claustrum complex, a small yet powerful region in the brain, has intrigued scientists for years. Found across mammalian ...

More than 12 million Americans experience visual impairments that limit independence and quality of life. This National Eye ...

What if what we see, read or experience could be captured by AI, and then rendered as brief video clips to help scientists understand how the brain processes and encodes information? In the growing ...

Robots that can sense and respond to the world like humans may soon be a reality as scientists have created an artificial ...

Scientists have made new improvements to a "brain decoder" that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to convert thoughts into text. Their new converter algorithm can quickly train an existing decoder on ...

A new study offers insight into what is happening in our brains when our working memory must use its limited resources to remember multiple things. Researchers found that two parts of the brain work ...

Whether we're staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...