Although humans' visual perception of the world appears complete, our eyes contain a visual blind spot where the optic nerve connects to the retina. Scientists are still uncertain whether the brain ...

Our world is a rich tapestry of sensory information, constantly bombarding our nervous system with a vast array of stimuli.

A popular theory in neuroscience called predictive coding proposes that the brain produces all the time expectations that are compared with incoming information. Errors arising from differences ...

Robot perception and cognition often rely on the integration of information from multiple sensory modalities, such as vision, ...

A collaboration between SISSA’s Physics and Neuroscience groups has taken a step forward in understanding how memories are stored and retrieved in the brain. The study, recently published in Neuron, ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in Trieste, published in PLOS Computational Biology. The research shows that, ...

In my work as a brand strategist revealing the intersection of psychology and marketing, I have found that the most effective marketers have an intuitive grasp that science is now beginning to prove.