Latest

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.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology Visual Neuroscience

·March 4, 2021·4 min read

Quick to Smile? The Speed of Expression Offers Vital Visual Cues

Our ability to recognize emotion in others depends upon the speed at which we process facial expressions.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·March 3, 2021·3 min read

Color Blindness-Correcting Contact Lenses

Infusing contact lenses with gold nanoparticles allows for better color perception for those who are color blind.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·February 25, 2021·5 min read

Artificial ‘Brain’ Reveals Why We Can’t Always Believe Our Eyes

A new artificial neural network based on the human brain sheds light on how we process moving images.

This is a watercolor painting of a blue eye

Featured Neurology Visual Neuroscience

·February 17, 2021·4 min read

COVID-19 Linked to Potentially Dangerous Eye Abnormalities

A new, lasting consequence of COVID-19 infection has been identified. Researchers report they have identified significant abnormalities in the eyes of those with severe coronavirus infection.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·February 16, 2021·8 min read

How the Human Brain May Tap Into Visual Cues When Lacking a Sense of Touch

Study of people who are unable to feel touch reveals surprising new details about how we unconsciously embody our physical selves.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology Visual Neuroscience

·February 15, 2021·4 min read

Visual Hallucinations Among Blind People Increase During Pandemic

Loneliness, stress, and social isolation as a result of COVID-19 exacerbated and intensified visual hallucinations in blind people with Charles Bonnet Syndrome by 56%.

This shws different colored blocks of clay and the machine mentioned in the article

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·February 9, 2021·6 min read

Human Eye Beats Machine in Archaeological Color Identification Test

X-Rite Capsure, an archaeological tool to help researchers match colors, is not as consistent or accurate as the human eye in color determination.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Visual Neuroscience

·February 9, 2021·5 min read

How Our Visual System Avoids Overloading

Findings contradict the assumption the visual system categorizes objects based on simple features alone.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·February 9, 2021·7 min read

Color Is in the Eye of the Beholder

The evolution of red color vision in a species of butterfly is linked to coordinating rhodopsin tuning.

This shows how the memory switches in the brain

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·February 8, 2021·7 min read

As You Look Around, Mental Images Bounce Between Right and Left Brain

In visual working memory, the brain immediately transfers the memory of object shifts by re-encoding the memory among neurons in the opposite brain hemisphere.