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·November 18, 2015·3 min read

How Do Our Brains See The World Around Us?

Researchers reveal how the brain makes sense of still objects and motion to help us navigate the world around us.

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·November 11, 2015·4 min read

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You: Why We Look at Pretty Faces

A new study reports our brains may reward us for looking at pretty faces.

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·November 7, 2015·5 min read

Supercharged Ability to See Infrared Light Allows Freshwater Fish to Navigate Murky Waters

In order to navigate murky waters, freshwater fish and amphibians have evolved a means to see infrared light.

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·October 12, 2015·7 min read

Making Sense of an Ambiguous World: How Hallucinations Emerged

A new study suggests hallucinations arose to help us enhance our tendency to make sense of the world around us and could help explain why some people are more prone to hallucinations that others.

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·October 5, 2015·6 min read

IT Looks Familiar: How The Brain Recognizes Objects

A new study provides evidence that the inferior temporal cortex can identify objects.

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·September 14, 2015·5 min read

Researchers Rediscover and Map ‘Lost’ Brain Structure

Researchers map an area of the brain which has been absent from text books for almost 100 years. They believe this area could play an important role in how we understand the world.

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·September 4, 2015·5 min read

Predicting How Humans Estimate Speed

Researchers believe they have devised an optimal model for speed and visual processing.

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·August 27, 2015·6 min read

The Plastic Brain: Visual Cortex of Blind Children Can be Remodeled to Process Language

A new study reports that in blind children, a region of the brain that normally involved in visual processing can be remodeled to process language.

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·August 6, 2015·5 min read

New Software Reveals the World Through Animal Eyes

Researchers have developed a new camera technology which reveals the world through the eyes of animals.

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·July 21, 2015·4 min read

Jump-Starting Vision With the Power of Words

Researchers manipulate the connection between language and vision to show that words have a profound effect on perception.

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·July 15, 2015·6 min read

Visual Processing Pathways Strengthened by Vision Restoring Gene Therapy

Researchers find evidence that a sight restoring gene therapy strengthens visual pathways in the brain.

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·July 1, 2015·4 min read

Making Sense of the Visual World: Seeing is Believing

A new study addresses the nature and origin of neural signals involved in solving perceptual tasks.

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