A series of recent brain-imaging studies has begun to explain a central mystery of the psychedelic experience: why people on ...

Life doesn't arrive in neat chapters. It flows, one conversation bleeding into the next, one thought quietly reshaping the one that follows. Yet our brains do something remarkable: they preserve a ...

Inside the Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at ASU, researchers investigate how the brain turns sensory signals into meaningful perception. Led by Professor Gi-Yeul Bae at the Department of ...

The brain’s wiring forms a unique fingerprint that reveals how we think, remember, and make decisions. A new study offers the ...

You hear a phone ring or a dog bark. Is it yours or someone else's? You hear footsteps in the night - is it your child, or an intruder? Friend or foe? The decision you make will determine what action ...

A recent study has revealed how the psychedelic brew ayahuasca alters brain waves to induce profound mystical experiences and ...

Research findings reinforce new approaches in psychology, using psychedelic substances under medical supervision to treat certain clinical conditions. Psychedelic substances are increasingly being ...

A tiny region in the brain works like a reset button that separates memory of one meaningful event from the next. Without this reset mechanism, moments could blur together and lead to the kinds of ...

Horses are beautiful, but—hippos are ugly. Why? Why does the human mind see beauty in some images and ugliness in others? Is the perception of beauty intrinsic to how the brain processes visual ...