Combining virtual reality and non-invasive deep-brain electrical stimulation, researchers have improved healthy individuals’ spatial memory – the kind that helps you remember where you left the car ...

The race to understand the brain has just crossed a new threshold, with a supercomputer-driven model that behaves less like a schematic and more like living tissue. Instead of treating neurons as ...

ROYAL OAK, Mich. – Virtual reality technology is making brain surgery safer and helping to explain complicated procedures to patients. Neurosurgeons at Corewell Health William Beaumont University ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Fresno State professor is seeing success by having her students learn with the help of virtual reality. Fresno State Biology Professor and neuroscientist Anahit Hovhannisyan ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning ...

To learn from a virtual body, it would need to be able to accurately simulate or predict how the body responds to internal and external changes. What happens when a virus infects someone? What will ...

A new study reveals that alpha brain waves help the brain decide what belongs to your body. Faster rhythms allow the brain to match sight and touch more precisely, strengthening the feeling that a ...

Aran Nayebi jokes that his robot vacuum has a bigger brain than his two cats. But while the vacuum can only follow a preset ...

Zhengang Lu and Russell Epstein, from the University of Pennsylvania, led a study to explore how people maintain their sense of direction while navigating naturalistic, virtual reality cities. As ...

Mirror therapy rehabilitation is a technique commonly used with stroke survivors to help them regain function of their limbs that have been weakened because of a stroke. The method consists of using ...