Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain mapped hundreds of images (far left) by eye tracking (center left), "meaning" (center right) and salience or outstanding features (far left).

While humans concentrate on the meaning of objects, artificial intelligence focuses on visual characteristics. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. "These dimensions ...

The scientific literature considers music either as an abstract stimulus, devoid of explicit meaning, or a universal language. Music listening rarely involves exclusive focus on the sounds themselves.

We conducted three experiments indicating that characteristically deontological judgments—here, disapproving of sacrificing one person for the greater good of others—are preferentially supported by ...

What is a thought? What does a thought feel like? Is it an image, a sound, or both? When you think, are you talking to yourself or remembering something that happened, like pulling out a photograph to ...

Our visual attention is drawn to parts of a scene that have meaning, rather than to those that are salient or "stick out," according to new research from the Center for Mind and Brain at the ...