FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·June 7, 2018·9 min readUnique Patient Offers Insight into the Brain’s Quest to SeeA patient missing most of her occipital lobes on both sides of the brain is helping researchers shed light on how the brain processes objects in motion.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceNeuroscience Videos·March 23, 2018·4 min readShedding Light on the Perception of MotionA new study reveals how neurons implicated in the perception of motion are formed in the brains of fruit flies.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·June 7, 2017·6 min readRetinal Cells ‘Go With the Flow’ to Assess Own Motion Through SpaceA new study reveals how specialized cells in the retina sense motion.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·May 22, 2017·4 min readComputations of Visual Motion in the BrainResearchers detail how the visual cortex and retina work together in visual motion perception.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·September 28, 2016·5 min readSome Brains Are Blind to Moving ObjectsResearchers discover motion blindness has little to do with vision and more to do with the brain's ability to interpret sensory information correctly.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·December 6, 2015·3 min readRelative Perception of the WorldResearchers use optical illusions to investigate how flies process contrast and motion.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·April 12, 2014·2 min readAn Early Link to Motion PerceptionResearchers report human perceptual motion bias in low contrast scenes is encoded within the visual cortex.Read More
AutismFeatured·May 8, 2013·3 min readEnhanced Motion Detection in Autism May Point to Underlying Cause of the DisorderA new study finds children with autism see simple movements twice as quickly as their non-autistic peers. This hypersensitivity to motion could provide clues to one of the fundamental causes of autism.Read More
