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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·August 18, 2022·4 min read

Touch and Sight Are Linked Before Birth

During the embryonic stage, tactile information simultaneously activated the tactile and visual neural pathways. After birth, the pathways separate and reorganize to allow for individual processing of visual and tactile information.

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·September 8, 2022·3 min read

I Never Forget a Face: The Science of Super-Recognizers’ Amazing Feats of Recognition

Super recognizers focus less on the eye region and distribute their gaze more evenly than typical viewers, extracting more information from other facial features.

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·September 12, 2022·7 min read

How Visual Information Travels From the Retina to the Midbrain

Neurons in the midbrain receive strong, specific synaptic input from retinal ganglion cells, but only from a small number of the sensory neurons.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Visual Neuroscience

·November 29, 2022·5 min read

Brain Cells Use a ‘Telephone Trick’ to Report What They See

Single neurons conveying visual information about two separate objects in line of sight do so by alternating signals about one object or the other. However, when the two objects overlap, brain cells detect them as a single entity.

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Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·December 7, 2022·5 min read

Hearing Is Believing: Sounds Can Alter Our Visual Perception

Certain auditory cues not only help us recognize an object more quickly, but they also even alter our visual perception.

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·December 13, 2022·4 min read

Should You Believe Your Eyes? Not Necessarily in Virtual Reality

Perception in virtual reality is more strongly influenced by expectations than visual information, researchers report.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·January 20, 2023·5 min read

Why Congenitally Blind People Show Activity in Visual-Processing Areas of the Brain

Study reveals structural changes of connectivity in the thalamus to other brain areas in those with congenital blindness, providing evidence of brain plasticity. The areas of the thalamus that connect with the occipital lobe in those with blindness are weaker and smaller, giving space to connections in the temporal cortex which are strengthened.

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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·January 25, 2023·3 min read

Movement Information Offers Critical Visual Cues

The brain uses motion cues to decipher how we see objects, a new study reports.

Autism Featured Neuroscience

·March 1, 2023·5 min read

Through the Eye of the Beholder: People With Autism Process Illusory Shapes Differently

Using EEG data, researchers discovered children on the autism spectrum do not automatically process illusory shapes as well as children not on the autism spectrum. The findings suggest something is going awry in the feedback-processing pathways in the brains of those with autism.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·March 5, 2023·7 min read

How Common is Face Blindness?

Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, is believed to affect up to 2.5% of the population. However, researchers say prosopagnosia may be on a spectrum and the number of cases may be far higher, estimating up to 1 in 33 people may meet the criteria for face blindness.