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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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·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.

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·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%.

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·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.

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·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.

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·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.

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·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.

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·February 6, 2021·5 min read

Do You See Red Like I See Red?

Researchers answer the age-old question of why people perceive the same color in different ways?

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·February 4, 2021·5 min read

New Book Helps Identify Risks of Reading Difficulties

A new book helps researchers screen for potential reading difficulties in young children.

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·February 3, 2021·4 min read

Blink! The Link Between Aerobic Fitness and Cognition

Spontaneous eye-blink rates could be the missing link in explaining the relationship between aerobic fitness and cognitive function.

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·February 2, 2021·6 min read

Remyelinating Drug Could Improve Vision in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

IndCl, a drug that improves myelination and reduces motor disability, appears to improve visual problems associated with multiple sclerosis.

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·January 5, 2021·6 min read

Routine Eye Scans May Give Clues to Cognitive Decline in Diabetes

Routine eye exams could help identify changes associated with cognitive decline in patients with type 1 diabetes.

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·January 2, 2021·4 min read

Tracing the Many Paths of Vision

Study supports the theory that highly specialized neurons in the brain are key to translating diverse visual stimuli into behavior.

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