Older adults with visual impairments are 1.3 times more likely to develop mild cognitive impairment, often considered a precursor to Alzheimer's disease, than those with no significant vision loss.
Visual Neuroscience
Visual Neuroscience news articles cover science research into visual cortex, vision, visual disorders, blindness, brain processing of visual cues, facial recognition and research related to how eyes and brains function.
A new, bio-inspired compound eye is helping researchers to understand how insects sense an object and its trajectory with such speed.
According to researchers, color vision is vital for chickens to find good food and the right mating partner.
Children as young as three have an adult-like preference for visual fractal patterns commonly seen in nature. The findings suggest the preference for common natural fractal patterns develops early in life.
Study reveals how changes in pupil size affect the way we perceive our surroundings.
Study of people who are unable to feel touch reveals surprising new details about how we unconsciously embody our physical selves.
The color red is not particularly strong in terms of the strength of gamma oscillations it generates in the brain.
A new study provides clues as to how cells in the visual cortex directs sensory information to different targets throughout the brain.
While listening to audiobooks with a captivating narrative, the inferior parietal lobe and visual cortex elicit individual meaning and flow of mental imagery.
A new study identifies how the brain processes visual stimuli above and below the horizon differently.
Exposing crocodiles to a variety of auditory and visual stimuli while in an MRI, researchers discover their brain processing patterns resemble that of other mammals and birds. The researchers speculate the fundamental mechanisms of sensory processing were formed at an early evolutionary stage.
Researchers have identified neurons in the visual cortex that enable the detection of moving objects as we move along.
