Here were the simple instructions given by a Harvard University assistant professor to people participating in a recent cognitive science study: “Imagine the following scene. Visualize it in your mind ...

When Nick Watkins was a child, he pasted articles about space exploration into scrapbooks and drew annotated diagrams of rockets. He knew this because, years later, he still had the scrapbooks, and ...

This is Science, Quickly, a podcast from Scientific American. I’m Stefano Montali. If I asked you to visualize, say, Harry Potter, you’d probably have no problem picturing him in your mind: a teenage ...

(NEXSTAR) – How vivid is your mind’s eye? If you were to try to picture an apple right now, can you see it? The shape, the color, the skin, the stem? Or is there no picture at all? Aphantasia, a ...

A woman said her "mind is blown" by the discovery of what certain people can see in their heads when they're reading. Lia Shields, 27, has been an avid book lover since she was a child, managing to ...

Researchers turned human brain waves into AI-generated pictures of what a person was seeing. Their work is focused on decoding brain activity to understand a person's thoughts. The experiment, ...