Recent work has revealed two food-selective areas in the lateral and ventromedial occipitotemporal cortex (OTC). These studies have shown that food selectivity in these regions cannot be explained by ...

Are you interested in understanding how attention shapes what we see? Would you like to combine behavioural experiments, psychophysics, and eye tracking to uncover how the brain selects and prioritise...

Ticklishness is a familiar but poorly understood experience. Xiong and Kilteni show that ticklishness is culturally shared and follows a distinct bodily topography. They evaluate different theories on...

In the real world, objects always appear in context. Many objects are reliably associated with a certain scene context (e.g., pots appear in kitchens) and other objects that appear in the same context...

In everyday life, we often encounter objects that are partially hidden or only seen from the corner of our eye. Our brain is remarkably good at keeping track of objects, and new research reveals how t...

ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

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Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab

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Abstract. The idea that the brain is a probabilistic (Bayesian) inference machine, continuously trying to figure out the hidden causes of its inputs, has become very influential in cognitive (neuro)sc...

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As part of the Donders Sessions, this year’s annual poster session was expanded into a full-day event featuring engaging talks and poster presentations. Sharon Unsworth was awarded the Donders Cube fo...

A study by Marco Gandolfo shows how our brain processes information and how this differs by gender and age. 14 thousand participants in this study were visitors to the muZIEum in Nijmegen who took par...

Scientific Data - Human head models and populational framework for simulating brain stimulations

We effortlessly categorise other people along socially relevant categories such as sex, age, and emotion. A core question in social vision relates to …

We effortlessly categorise other people along socially relevant categories such as sex, age, and emotion. A core question in social vision relates to …

As a social species, humans preferentially attend to the faces and bodies of other people. Previous research revealed specialized cognitive mechanisms…

As a social species, humans preferentially attend to the faces and bodies of other people. Previous research revealed specialized cognitive mechanisms…

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Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) is an integrated set of methods for testing hypotheses about the brain's structure and function, using data from imaging devices. These methods are implemented in ...

Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…

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