Category Learning Can Be Influenced By Where an Object is in Our Field of Vision
Where objects appear in a person's visual field can affect the ability to determine what the object is, researchers say.... Read More...
visual neuroscience
Blind People Depend on Timing Cues for Some Spatial Awareness
Researchers report blind people need additional timing cues to accurately judge relative locations of sounds, but those without visual impairments who were blindfolded could judge the relative location of sounds independently from timing cues. ... Read More...
Long Term Study of a Boy’s Lobectomy Offers Rare Glimpse of Plasticity in Action
Researchers report, following a lobectomy, the left hemisphere of the brain compensated for visual tasks in a young boy. The findings, researchers say, provide a detailed characterization of plasticity in the developing brain. ... Read More...
Past Experience Shapes What We See More Than What We Are Looking At Now
Researchers report we recognize what we are looking at by combining current stimuli with comparison to images stored in memory.... Read More...
Noradrenaline Plays a Critical Role in Sensory Perception
A new study reveals noradrenaline plays a vital role in early stages of perception. Researchers report later processing of visual information occurs in the cerebral cortex and is affected by noradrenaline to determine if an image will enter our stream of consciousness.... Read More...
Visual Perceptual Skills Are Updated By Processes Similar to Memory Reconsolidation
Researchers report our ability to identify and categorize visual information is an active process similar to memory stabilization.... Read More...
Where the Brain Transforms Seeing into Acting
Researchers provide evidence that the posterior parietal cortex plays a vital role in converting vision into action.... Read More...
Visualizing the Connections Between Eye and Brain
A new study describes the activity of retinal neurons as they deliver visual information to the thalamus, an area of the brain implicated in image processing.... Read More...
Living with Sensory Processing Disorder
Scientists are beginning to understand the neuroscience behind sensory processing disorder and are developing new therapies to help those with SPD.... Read More...
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. ... Read More...
Neuroimaging Study to Shed Light on Mind Blindness
Researchers are planning to conduct a new neuroimaging study to investigate why some people are unable to create visual images in their imagination.... Read More...
Why the Eyes Could be the Window to Neurodegenerative Diseases, Like Alzheimer’s
Researchers say a new retinal imaging test could be a reliable tool for measuring the progression of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's. The study reports the tool can detect drusen, which is often higher in those with AD.... Read More...