This video examines three animals often dismissed as unremarkable and compares them based on biological performance. Each ...

Your brain might have a hidden neural layer that puts you in touch with the same “figures” during altered states of ...

Semantic Extension, Idioms and Proverbs, Cultural Semantics, Cognitive Semantics Share and Cite: Di, J.Y. (2026) A Semantic Analysis of “Peach” in Chinese and Japanese. Open Access Library Journal, 13 ...

An ambitious effort to create a paradigm explaning near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people’s brushes with death, top University of Virginia ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

Embodied artificial intelligence (AI) systems are robotic agents that rely on machine learning algorithms to sense their surroundings, plan their actions and execute them. A key aspect of these ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robert Jacobs, University of Rochester (THE CONVERSATION) When asked the other day ...

The Oxford Visual Perception Screen (OxVPS) is a screening tool recently developed for visual perception deficits that occur after a stroke, such as difficulties in recognizing objects, faces, and ...

Introduction Visual perception and visual-motor integration skills are key predictors of handwriting. Children with cerebral palsy often experience difficulties in these areas, which can negatively ...

New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists test the human mind. The work by Johns Hopkins University ...