Lead author Nadine Dijkstra noted that while imagination does stimulate the same region, the signal is usually too weak to ...

Activity levels in a specific region of the brain predict whether we think something is real, irrespective of whether we've ...

Areas of the brain that help a person differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary have been uncovered in a new ...

Two brain regions seem to work together to determine whether we are seeing something real, or merely a product of our ...

Have you ever imagined something so clearly that it felt real? A new study from researchers at University College London (UCL ...

A new study from University College London uncovers the brain processes that help distinguish between real experiences and ...

Your brain does not read words letter by letter, experts told Live Science. Instead, it looks for patterns, considers context then makes predictions. So even if a word is misspelled or missing its ...

Chinese researchers reported a nearly complete skull representing the first known sauropod species from East Asia. A team at ...

Real and imagined images are processed using the same systems in the brain, yet most people can distinguish between the two.

“Imagine an apple in your mind’s eye as vividly as you can. During imagination, many of the same brain regions activate in ...