Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

The eerie ability to see our hand in the dark suggests that the brain combines information from different senses to create perceptions.

A surprisingly simple exercise measures the brain’s unconscious ability to filter out visual movement, and points to an unexpected link between IQ and motion filtering

Such heightened sensory perception in autism may help explain why some people with the disorder are painfully sensitive to noise and bright lights.

The study tracked eight olive baboons, ages 4 to 14, in 54 separate trials of guess-which-cup-has-the-most-treats.

Richard Aslin, the William R. Kenan Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and director of the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging at the University of Rochester, has been elected a…

Using brain scans of children and adults watching Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children's brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math.

Many changes to language are simply the brain's way of ensuring that communication is as precise and concise as possible.

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