The human brain actively keeps "learning" in balance by holding on to what matters and letting go of what does not.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What color is a tree, or the sky, or a sunset? At first glance, the answers seem obvious. But it turns out there is plenty of ...

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This short uses a color wheel, a white dot, and a countdown to create a strong visual afterimage effect. The viewer is told ...

Even though the human visual system has sophisticated machinery for processing color, the brain has no problem recognizing objects in black-and-white images. A new study from MIT offers a possible ...

Red traffic lights make drivers stop. The color red produces a signaling and warning effect. But is this also reflected in the brain? Researchers at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for ...

Complex neuroimaging data can be explored through translation into an audiovisual format -- a video with accompanying musical soundtrack -- to help interpret what happens in the brain when performing ...