What Your Cell Phone Camera Tells You About Your Brain
A new study unites cognitive science and information theory, reporting our brains are structured to make the best possible decisions given their limited resources.... Read More...
visual neuroscience
What Catches Our Eye?
Researchers report a neural network called the isthmic system helps us to select visual objects that catch our attention.... Read More...
A Neurological Synergy in Explaining the Processing of Optical Illusions
Researchers have uncovered what they are calling 'neurological synergy' which occurs during visual adaptation.... Read More...
Researchers 3D Print Prototype for a ‘Bionic Eye’
Researchers have developed a 3D printed prototype for a bionic eye. The team successfully printed an array of light receptors onto a hemispherical surface. This advance could revolutionize restoring vision to those who have lost their sight. ... Read More...
Category Learning Can Be Influenced By Where an Object is in Our Field of Vision
Where objects appear in a person's visual field can affect the ability to determine what the object is, researchers say.... Read More...
Blind People Depend on Timing Cues for Some Spatial Awareness
Researchers report blind people need additional timing cues to accurately judge relative locations of sounds, but those without visual impairments who were blindfolded could judge the relative location of sounds independently from timing cues. ... Read More...
Long Term Study of a Boy’s Lobectomy Offers Rare Glimpse of Plasticity in Action
Researchers report, following a lobectomy, the left hemisphere of the brain compensated for visual tasks in a young boy. The findings, researchers say, provide a detailed characterization of plasticity in the developing brain. ... Read More...
Past Experience Shapes What We See More Than What We Are Looking At Now
Researchers report we recognize what we are looking at by combining current stimuli with comparison to images stored in memory.... Read More...
Visual Perceptual Skills Are Updated By Processes Similar to Memory Reconsolidation
Researchers report our ability to identify and categorize visual information is an active process similar to memory stabilization.... Read More...
New Brain Pathway for Escaping Predators Discovered
Researchers report on the role of the thalamus in perception and reaction to predators.... Read More...
Where the Brain Transforms Seeing into Acting
Researchers provide evidence that the posterior parietal cortex plays a vital role in converting vision into action.... Read More...
Visualizing the Connections Between Eye and Brain
A new study describes the activity of retinal neurons as they deliver visual information to the thalamus, an area of the brain implicated in image processing.... Read More...