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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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·August 19, 2020·3 min read

Toddlers Who Use Touchscreens Show Attention Differences

Toddlers who frequently use touchscreen technology may have an edge over their peers who are not routinely exposed to the technology when it comes to visual search abilities.

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·August 18, 2020·5 min read

Artificial Intelligence Recognizes Deteriorating Photoreceptors

Novel artificial intelligence software can provide a precise assessment of the progression of geographic atrophy. The technology can also determine the integrity of photoreceptors and detect progressive degenerative changes beyond the main lessons associated with GA.

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·August 17, 2020·5 min read

To Perceive Faces, Your Brain Relies on a Process Similar to Computer Face Recognition Systems

Some patients with a disorder called hemi-PMO see distortions in the same half of a person's face, regardless of the angle they view the face. Findings suggest the visual system standardizes all the faces we perceive using the same process, so they can be better compared to faces we have seen before.

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·August 14, 2020·6 min read

Why the Brain Is Programmed to See Faces in Everyday Objects

Face pareidolia, the phenomenon of seeing facelike structures in inanimate objects, is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when sensory input is processed by visual mechanisms that have evolved to extract social content from human faces.

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·August 13, 2020·5 min read

How Do We Prioritize What We See?

The occipital cortex plays a causal role in piloting our attention to manage the intake of images.

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·August 7, 2020·4 min read

Humans Use the Visual Part of Their Brain When Hearing Sounds in the Dark, Even If They Were Born Without Sight

Humans use the primary visual cortex to process sounds in the dark. This not only occurs in those with sight but also those who were born blind.

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·July 20, 2020·5 min read

Study Helps to Settle Debate on Roles of REM and Non-REM Sleep in Visual Learning

During non-REM sleep, visual areas of the brain exhibit an excitation/inhibition balance indicative of increased plasticity. REM sleep appears to be essential for people to reap the benefits of the increased plasticity that occurs during NREM sleep.

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·July 17, 2020·3 min read

How Traumatic Experiences Can Leave Their Mark on a Person’s Eyes

Pupillary response in those with PTSD differs from people who have not experienced traumatic events. The pupils of those with PTSD failed to show sharp constriction caused by light changes, and more enlargement when exposed to emotional stimuli that other participants. Patients with PTSD not only showed an exaggerated response to threatening stimuli but also to stimuli that depicted positive images.

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·July 14, 2020·4 min read

Vision Scientists Discover Why Humans Literally Don’t See Eye to Eye

Our ability to pinpoint the exact size and location of objects varies from one person to the next, and even within our own individual field of vision.

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·July 13, 2020·6 min read

Is What I See, What I Imagine? The Neural Overlap Between Vision and Imagination

Using artificial intelligence and neuroimaging, researchers have identified a link between mental imagery and vision. The brain uses similar visual areas for mental imagery and vision but uses low-level visual areas less precisely for mental imagery than vision.

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·July 6, 2020·3 min read

Scientists Discover a New Connection Between the Eyes and Touch

Micro-saccades, or tiny eye movements, can be used as an index of our ability to anticipate relevant information in the environment, independent of the information's sensory modality.

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·June 22, 2020·5 min read

Being ‘mind-blind’ may make remembering, dreaming and imagining harder

Aphantasia, a disorder in which people are lack the ability to mentally visualize imagery, is also associated with a widespread pattern of changes to other important cognitive processes. Many with aphantasia report a reduced ability to recall past events, imagine the future, and dream.

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Visual Neuroscience

Toddlers Who Use Touchscreens Show Attention Differences

Artificial Intelligence Recognizes Deteriorating Photoreceptors

To Perceive Faces, Your Brain Relies on a Process Similar to Computer Face Recognition Systems

Why the Brain Is Programmed to See Faces in Everyday Objects

How Do We Prioritize What We See?

Humans Use the Visual Part of Their Brain When Hearing Sounds in the Dark, Even If They Were Born Without Sight

Study Helps to Settle Debate on Roles of REM and Non-REM Sleep in Visual Learning

How Traumatic Experiences Can Leave Their Mark on a Person’s Eyes

Vision Scientists Discover Why Humans Literally Don’t See Eye to Eye

Is What I See, What I Imagine? The Neural Overlap Between Vision and Imagination

Scientists Discover a New Connection Between the Eyes and Touch

Being ‘mind-blind’ may make remembering, dreaming and imagining harder

Cortisol Kill-Switch: Exercise Rewires Stress Biology

AI Restores Voices Through Microscopic Neck Movements

New Blueprint for Brain Repair

Music Corrects the Brain’s “Glitched” Predictions

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