We see not just with our eyes, but with our brains. A mosaic of specialized areas in a brain region known as the visual cortex interprets different sights, helping us identify everything from solid ...
Forty-four children with dyslexia, ages 7–13, received eight weeks of intensive instruction using Lindamood-Bell's Seeing Stars® program, delivered live and virtually by trained instructional ...
In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...
In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...
Toronto, February 9, 2026 – Learning to read reshapes how the brain processes language. New research from Baycrest and the University of São Paulo shows that learning to read fundamentally changes how ...
The cerebellum, a part of the brain traditionally associated with balance and movement, is also important for more complex ...
Neuroscientists have discovered that reading a novel can improve brain function on a variety of levels. The recent study on the brain benefits of reading fiction was conducted at Emory University. The ...