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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·January 17, 2020·4 min read

Reward improves visual perceptual learning, but only after people sleep

Reward does not improve visual perception learning unless it is followed by a good night's sleep.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·November 18, 2016·6 min read

Ducklings Maintain Two Separate Memory Banks of Visual Information

Researchers report newly hatched ducklings that are shown a substitute mother object with only one eye do not recognize it when they have only the other eye available.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·February 23, 2023·3 min read

Trained Brains Rapidly Suppress Visual Distractions

Following training, the brain's visual center can suppress neuronal responses to pop-out distractors that are usually enhanced compared to other, non-distracting stimuli.

Featured Neuroscience

·April 4, 2016·5 min read

Think Small: Diminishing Returns in Neuroscience

Researchers are investigating what makes a brain efficient and how that affects insect behavior.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·June 25, 2018·5 min read

Inability to Recognize Faces Linked to Broader Visual Recognition Problems

Researchers report developmental prosopagnosia, or face blindness, occurs as the results of neurobiological problems that broadly affect visual recognition.

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Featured Neuroscience

·February 16, 2015·3 min read

New Pathways Discovered to Prevent Blindness

A new study investigates the relationship between brain plasticity and vision loss.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology Visual Neuroscience

·June 20, 2018·5 min read

Can Psychological Stress Cause Vision Loss?

Researchers report persistent psychological stress can contribute to the development and progression of vision loss.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·July 8, 2016·5 min read

Sparking Sharper Sight: Mild Electrical Current May Improve Vision

A new study reveals stimulating the visual cortex for 20 minutes with a mild electrical current can improve vision for 2 hours.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·October 5, 2020·3 min read

Process for Regenerating Neurons in the Eye and Brain Identified

Researchers have identified a network of genes in Zebrafish that regulate the process of determining whether certain neurons will regenerate.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·May 22, 2017·4 min read

Computations of Visual Motion in the Brain

Researchers detail how the visual cortex and retina work together in visual motion perception.

Featured Neuroscience

·November 20, 2020·3 min read

Do Neural Networks Dream Visual Illusions?

When convolutional neural networks are trained under experimental conditions, they are deceived by the brightness and color of a visual image in similar ways to the human visual system.