FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·February 16, 2021·8 min readHow the Human Brain May Tap Into Visual Cues When Lacking a Sense of TouchStudy of people who are unable to feel touch reveals surprising new details about how we unconsciously embody our physical selves.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychologyVisual Neuroscience·February 15, 2021·4 min readVisual Hallucinations Among Blind People Increase During PandemicLoneliness, stress, and social isolation as a result of COVID-19 exacerbated and intensified visual hallucinations in blind people with Charles Bonnet Syndrome by 56%.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·February 9, 2021·6 min readHuman Eye Beats Machine in Archaeological Color Identification TestX-Rite Capsure, an archaeological tool to help researchers match colors, is not as consistent or accurate as the human eye in color determination.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·February 9, 2021·5 min readHow Our Visual System Avoids OverloadingFindings contradict the assumption the visual system categorizes objects based on simple features alone.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·February 9, 2021·7 min readColor Is in the Eye of the BeholderThe evolution of red color vision in a species of butterfly is linked to coordinating rhodopsin tuning.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·February 8, 2021·7 min readAs You Look Around, Mental Images Bounce Between Right and Left BrainIn visual working memory, the brain immediately transfers the memory of object shifts by re-encoding the memory among neurons in the opposite brain hemisphere.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·February 6, 2021·5 min readDo You See Red Like I See Red?Researchers answer the age-old question of why people perceive the same color in different ways?Read More
FeaturedNeurologyVisual Neuroscience·February 2, 2021·6 min readRemyelinating Drug Could Improve Vision in Patients With Multiple SclerosisIndCl, a drug that improves myelination and reduces motor disability, appears to improve visual problems associated with multiple sclerosis.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceNeuroscience Videos·February 1, 2021·6 min readBrain Signals Decoded to Determine What a Person SeesDetecting and decoding activity in brain regions associated with visual processing allowed researchers to determine what a person sees.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·January 2, 2021·4 min readTracing the Many Paths of VisionStudy supports the theory that highly specialized neurons in the brain are key to translating diverse visual stimuli into behavior.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·December 27, 2020·6 min readCan’t Draw a Mental Picture? Aphantasia Causes Blind Spots in the Mind’s EyeWhile people with aphantasia lack visual imagery ability, they have intact spatial memory. Findings suggest mental imagery recall and spatial memory may be stored differently in the brain.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychologyVisual Neuroscience·December 21, 2020·4 min readDo I Know You? Researchers Evaluate How Masks Disrupt Facial PerceptionIt may be harder to recognize familiar faces when they wear a surgical mask to protect against COVID-19, a new study reports. Researchers noted a 15% drop in the ability for people to recognize faces when they were masked.Read More
