Motor imagery (MI) is the mental process of imagining a specific limb movement, such as raising a hand or walking, without physically performing it. These imagined movements generate distinct patterns ...

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Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

Science Corp., a developer of brain-computer interfaces and other medical equipment, today announced that it has raised $230 million in funding. The capital came from a consortium that included ...

After injury, the visual system can recover by growing new neural connections rather than replacing lost cells. Researchers found that surviving eye cells formed extra branches that restored ...

A new study shows that attention moves in fast repeating cycles in the brain, making us more open to distraction at certain moments.

"For us, communication is about giving her as much autonomy and voice as possible," Jess Markins tells PEOPLE of her 2-year-old daughter Caroline Laura Worrell Photography Jess Markins' daughter was ...

Now 2 years old, Caroline undergoes several different forms of therapy a week and communicates via an eye-gaze device Markins tells PEOPLE about her daughter's journey and explains why it's important ...

Jess Markins and her family. Jess Markins' daughter was just a little over 24 hours old when her whole world was rocked. The mom and content creator, who has been sharing her 2-year-old daughter ...