Learning to read boosts the visual brain
Learning to read enhances responses to other visual input in early visual areas of the brain.... Read More...
visual neuroscience
Brain may not need body movements to learn virtual spaces
Vision appears to play a more dominant role than motor movements when it comes to encoding memory of large-scale spaces. The findings address a long-standing debate as to whether or not body movements aid the learning of physical spaces.... Read More...
New insights into how astrocytes help the brain process information
Noradrenaline is essential for astrocytes to respond to local stimulation.... Read More...
Human perception of colors does not rely entirely on language
Based on the study of a stroke patient with damage to the occipito-temporal brain region, researchers made a big discovery about color categorization. They reveal color categorization and naming can be independent in the human brain. The finding challenges long-standing theories of the mandatory involvement of language in adult human cognition and color discrimination.... Read More...
Seeing it both ways: Visual perspective in memory
How we recall our memories, either through first-person perspective or as an observer, can affect the vividness and potency of the memory. Remembering an event in first-person perspective can make the memory stronger.... Read More...
New artificial compound eye could improve 3D object tracking
A new, bio-inspired compound eye is helping researchers to understand how insects sense an object and its trajectory with such speed.... Read More...
Autism can be measured through a non-verbal marker
A visual test may be a new tool in the diagnosis of autism. Individuals on the autism spectrum are slower to dampen neural activity in response to visual stimuli in the brain. Using EEG data collected from the visual region, researchers could predict with 87% accuracy whether or not a person had ASD.... Read More...
The case against reality
A new theory argues consciousness creates neural activity, and humans have evolved to see what is needed for survival. Perception, it is argued, is a user interface which may not necessarily be real.... Read More...
When you spot 1 driving hazard, you may be missing another
Subsequent search miss causes a reduction in the ability to detect an additional hazard when they spot another. The findings could help modify driver training to help reduce accidents and to develop in-vehicle technologies that focus on accident reduction.... Read More...
Stimulating neurons to induce particular perceptions in mice’s minds
Using optogenetics, researchers stimulated neurons in the visual cortex of mice to induce illusory images in the animals' minds.... Read More...
What You Think Is What You See
Perception and working memory are more deeply entangled than previously believed.... Read More...
Area of brain associated with spatial awareness and planning actions also plays crucial role in decision making
The posterior parietal cortex, an area of the brain implicated in spatial awareness, plays a critical role in visual decision making.... Read More...