Combining Technologies to View the Retina in Unprecedented Detail
Researchers say adaptive optics enables direct imaging of neural tissue, which could lead to earlier detection of diseases that affect eye tissue.... Read More...
visual neuroscience
Dynamic Audiovisuals Increase Spectator Attention, But Inhibit Conscious Processing
Study reports audiovisual editing causes an increase in activity in visual processing areas, while continuous and orderly editing produces more cognitive processing activity.... Read More...
Brain Learns to Recognize Familiar Faces Regardless of Where They Are in Visual Field
Researchers report facial recognition varies by where they appear in the visual field, and this variability is reduces through learning familiar faces via social interactions. The study reports repeated social interactions tune visual neurons in the face processing network to enable consistent and rapid rapid recognition of familiar faces.... Read More...
Casino Lights and Sounds Encourage Risky Decision Making
A new study reveals sensory cues within a casino may directly influence a player's decision to make more risky choices.... Read More...
Link Between What We See and How We Remember ‘Breaks’ As We Age
A new study reports older adults exhibit greater eye movements, but this does not correlate with an increase in brain activity patterns. Researchers say, while the eyes and brain are taking in environmental information, the link to creating memories of what is seen weakens over a life time.... Read More...
Mini Retinas Shed Light on Connection Between Eyes and Brain
Findings could help to develop new treatments to restore site when connections between the eyes and brain are damaged, researchers say.... Read More...
Surprising Network Activity in the Immature Brain
Spontaneously generated patterns of activity by local neural networks in the developing visual cortex provide the basis for long range connections that are established throughout brain activity over the course of cortical development, researchers report.... Read More...
To See What’s Right in Front of You, Your Brain May Need Some Rewiring
Researchers provide new evidence of brain plasticity. A new study reveals visual cortex neurons sprout new axons and shed some old ones as animals improve at perceptual learning tasks.... Read More...
Philosophy of the Mind: In Touch with Reality
According to a new study, we trust our fingertips over our eye when it comes to processing ambiguous information.... Read More...
da Vinci’s Artistic Genius May Have Been Partly Due to Eye Condition
Researchers report the reason for da Vinci's artistic genius may be the result of an eye condition that gave him an unusual ability to recreate 3D shapes. The study reports a number of other great masters may also have suffered from the same condition.... Read More...
Colored Filter Improves Dyslexic Children’s Reading Speed
Using a green filter help to increase reading speed for children with dyslexia, researchers report.... Read More...
Just How Blind Are Bats?
Researchers report not all bats are blind, but some have selected superior acoustic abilities over vision through evolution.... Read More...