" Our test, called the Imagination Perception Battery (BIP), is designed to assess the link between perception and mental imagery through the different visual qualities that enable a scene to be ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to ...

A series of recent brain-imaging studies has begun to explain a central mystery of the psychedelic experience: why people on psilocybin report that memories seem to blend with what they are actually ...

The human visual system is a dominant part of the brain’s processes and navigation of the world. To better understand an aspect of this system, researchers from Drexel University’s College of Nursing ...

When researchers ask them to imagine something familiar, they might have a concept of what it is, and words and associations ...

Each day, we pass by countless people on the streets, in airports, or at train stations. Brief encounters with lives we know nothing about. These moments remind me just how vast the human experience ...

Researchers have examined viewer responses to images of distressing and neutrally decorated masks and whether personal life history, particularly past experiences of trauma and difficulty, affected ...