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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.

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·October 18, 2021·3 min read

Children’s Visual Perception Continues to Develop up to Age 10

Contrary to popular belief, a child's visual perception does not reach adult level at age seven. A new study reveals children's visual perception continues to develop and does not reach maturity until age ten.

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·October 8, 2021·4 min read

Charting Hidden Territory of the Human Brain

A new, non-invasive neuroimaging technique allowed researchers to investigate the visual sensory thalamus, a brain area associated with visual difficulties in dyslexia and other disorders.

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·September 28, 2021·5 min read

Living Retina Achieves Sensitivity and Efficiency Engineers Can Only Dream About

Study reveals how evolution and natural selection have optimized the mammalian retina.

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·September 25, 2021·5 min read

Mice’s Learning Skills Help Researchers Pinpointing Brain Areas Where Acquired Knowledge Is Stored

Study finds part of the category knowledge is already present in the early visual brain areas, revealing how widespread semantic memories are stored throughout the brain.

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·September 9, 2021·6 min read

Eyeglasses for School Kids Boosts Academic Performance

Providing free or low-cost vision care and eyeglasses to children helped improve academic performance and behavior, researchers report.

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·September 8, 2021·7 min read

Behind the Scenes, Brain Circuit Ensures Vision Remains Reliable

While some types of excitatory neurons respond to images and represent them in the visual cortex, the activity of two types of inhibitory interneurons combine in a circuit to reinforce visual stability and reliability.

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·September 2, 2021·3 min read

Does Our Mind’s Eye Match Real Life? Study Shows Differences in How We Perceive Images

Study reveals individual differences in how we perceive and imagine visual images we have seen.

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·August 27, 2021·3 min read

Neurons in Visual Cortex of the Brain ‘Drift’ Over Time

Neurons in the visual cortex change their response to the same stimuli over time.

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·August 16, 2021·5 min read

Blind People Can’t See Color but Understand It the Same Way as Sighted People

Findings upend the long-standing belief that blind people lack deep knowledge of visual phenomena.

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·August 2, 2021·5 min read

Retina Hardwired to Predict Path of Moving Objects

Neural circuits within the retina are able to generate the information required to predict the movement and path of an object before visual signals leave the eye, researchers report.

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·August 2, 2021·2 min read

More to Pictures Than Meets the Eye

People perceive pictures of individuals within photographs as less real and having "less mind", a new study reports.

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·July 30, 2021·1 min read

Pupils Mirror Perception of Social Interaction

Perception of social interactions unfolds through pupil dilation. The findings shed light on the visual system's role in sensitivity to social interactions.