Our brains handle vast amounts of complicated information. So, how exactly does the mind make sense of all the many things it has to deal with? While there are a few different ideas, information ...

Being deaf from birth changes how a child interacts with the world in many ways. Even in their first year, deaf and hearing infants seem to process visual information differently. ByKatherine J. Wu ...

Human decision-making depends on the flexible processing of complex information, but how the brain may adapt processing to momentary task demands has remained unclear. Researchers have now outlined ...

The conscious experience of our surroundings involves several forms of attention, from bottom-up automatic attention to a more focused top-down attention. These forms of attention all rely on neural ...