When GABA targets are activated, visual processing for people on the autism spectrum becomes more like that of non-autistic people.
Findings reveal the brain may optimize visual information processing depending on its conscious state.
Caffeine improves visual acuity by increasing alertness and detection accuracy for moving objects, a new study reports.
Neurons in deep layers of the brain's cortex are the first to decipher which side of a visual border is an object and which side is the background.
Researchers have identified a flexible mechanism of visual information representation that alters in correlation to visual contrasts.
The fusiform face area, an area of the visual cortex responsible for facial processing, develops much earlier than previously believed.
Visual processing speed is reduced in children with dyslexia, a new study finds.
Researchers report that within the visual processing areas, information about a personally familiar or visually familiar face is shared across the brains of those with the same friends or acquaintances. Additionally, shared information about personally familiar faces extends to areas of the brain implicated in social processing, suggesting there is shared social information across the brain.
Study reveals why select members of a termite community experience brain changes in anticipation of cognitive demands.
While some types of excitatory neurons respond to images and represent them in the visual cortex, the activity of two types of inhibitory interneurons combine in a circuit to reinforce visual stability and reliability.
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Combining artificial intelligence, mathematical modeling, and brain imaging data, researchers shed light on the neural processes that occur when people use mental abstraction.
Study reveals how decisions based on visual information, which involves a complex stream of data flowing forwards and backward along the visual pathways, are broadcast widely to neurons in the visual system, including those not involved in the decision-making process.
