It showed that direct stimulation to the brain’s visual cortex can create the perception of shapes, colors and contrasts -- even when the eyes cannot see them.

The anatomy of the brain comes to life in these 3D images, revealing bright blue-and-red blood vessels, optic nerves crisscrossing on their way from the eyes to the brain, and other typically ...

While there are already eye implants that allow the blind to see simple patterns, Spanish scientists have recently had success with a different approach. They bypassed the eyes, producing ...

Regardless of where the stimulation occurred on their body, the same area at the top of the brain ‘lit up’, the images show. Meg Ryan in the fake orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally.

Electrical stimulation of the brain is found to accelerate learning in military and civilian subjects, although researchers are wary of drawing larger conclusions about the mechanism ...

Engineers have developed a new neural implant which could help completely blind people by bypassing non-functioning optical nerves and inputting images directly into their brain. It has already ...

For the first time, researchers have mapped the spots on the cortex that receive sensory stimulation from the female genitals. Surprisingly, sensation from the nipple activates the same brain area ...

Man locates clitoris at last It's what women have been telling men for decades: stimulating the vagina is not the same as stimulating the clitoris. Now brain scan data has added weight to ...

Stimulation Clicker satirizes how it can feel to gobble up the web by filling up the screen with internet videos, stock charts and Duolingo questions. There’s email to answer, too.