To what extent has Earth’s gravity shaped our cognitive and brain functions? Utilizing spaceflight and a ground-based analog, a new study shows that the human brain relies on bodily gravitational ...

Machine perception is the capability of a computer to take in and process sensory information in a way that’s similar to how humans perceive the world. It may rely on sensors that mimic common human ...

Are we living in a flatland? Or perhaps, are we bound in a cube of perception with impermeable spatial walls of length, width, and height—like a mime stuck in an imaginary cube? Let's take it slowly ...

Researchers in the US have finally completed the missing mathematical pieces of theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s century-old color theory, based on his geometric model describing how humans ...

Using direct, intracranial brain recordings in humans, a new study finds that the thalamus, a small region located deep within the brain, plays a pivotal role in conscious perception. According to the ...