This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

Does someone actually fancy you, or are they just being polite? Now, scientists have revealed an easy way to find out - ...

Touchscreens became a clear safety risk once large displays dominated car interiors, as drivers intuitively recognized that screen interaction demands far more attention than expected. This intuition ...

Loan, 22, suffered a hemorrhagic stroke caused by a cerebral arteriovenous malformation and was saved by timely emergency intervention by doctors.

Your eyes don’t lie. When you like someone, you’re drawn to them. Your gaze lingers, and your pupils widen, taking in as much of them as you can. No matter how hard you try to play it cool, this ...

For over a century, scientists believed that light, focus distance, and cognitive effort were the main forces behind changes in pupil size. But a new discovery adds breathing to that list. Researchers ...

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For the first time, researchers have been able to observe how the pupils react during sleep over a period of several hours. A look under the eyelids showed them that more happens in the brain during ...

The pupil responds to light, which is essential for our vision and how we see our surroundings. Three known mechanisms change the pupil’s size: the amount of light, focus distance, and cognitive ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet found that breathing affects pupil size, with pupils being smallest during inhalation and largest during exhalation. This discovery, which suggests a ...