Psychedelics appear to reshape how the brain builds reality by dampening incoming visual signals and boosting internal memory ...

An experimental study conducted in China found that a 5-week emotion-targeted mindfulness training improved participants’ ...

Psychedelics can quiet the brain’s visual input system, pushing it to replace missing details with vivid fragments from ...

New research shows how psychedelics alter visual processing and boost memory-linked brain circuits to generate hallucinations, revealing mechanisms with therapeutic implications.

To complete tasks that require storing relevant visual details for short periods of time, such as solving a puzzle, reading or comparing different objects, humans leverage their so-called visual ...

New research shows that in natural vision, visual memory of images is affected by the size of the image on the retina. The findings can have many implications, including on the use of different types ...

Psychedelic substances are increasingly being used under medical supervision to treat anxiety disorders and depression. However, the mechanisms by which these substances influence our perception and ...

Psychedelic substances act on the brain by binding to serotonin receptors. Scientists have identified at least 14 different receptors that respond to ...

Scientists have discovered that turtles possess advanced visual processing abilities once thought to be unique to mammals.