In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...

The researchers integrated measures of both brain structure and function to enable a more precise characterization of the human brain. Rather than identifying intelligence with a particular cognitive ...

There’s a lot to love about brains. They are arguably the most complex organ in the entire human body. 86 billion neurons send electrical and chemical signals back and forth within your brain to ...

How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in everyday life, perceive the duration of events around us? The answer lies in how ...

New research challenges traditional views of how the brain makes decisions, suggesting that even its earliest regions play a ...

The appearance of predictive text in writing an email or text message has become, for better or worse, a regular feature of our lives, saving us time by seamlessly filling in a word before we can type ...

As traditional computer chips reach their physical limits and artificial intelligence demands more energy than ever, ...

Nature heals the soul, but what does it do to the brain? Have you ever been on a camping or hiking trip to a national park ...

The world has changed since 1664, when French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes first claimed the brain was responsible for the sensation of pain. However, a key question remains: How exactly ...