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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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·May 14, 2020·3 min read

Mouse and human eye movements share important similarity

New eye-tracking technology monitors naturalistic eye movements in mice and discovers similarities and differences with human eye movement.

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·May 12, 2020·4 min read

What we can’t see can help us find things

To spot a missing item, people are 20% faster at locating what they are looking for if they factor in latent physical traits, like hardness or softness.

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·May 12, 2020·4 min read

Why visual perception is a decision process

Prediction errors play a role in the context of dynamic perceptual events that take place within fractions of a second. Findings support the hypothesis that visual perception occurs as a result of a decision process.

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·May 6, 2020·6 min read

How strong is your mental imagery? It might depend on how ‘excitable’ your neurons are

The strength of a person's mental imagery is associated with excitability in the prefrontal cortex and visual cortex. Highly excitable neurons in the visual cortex may reduce a person's ability to imagine mental images. The findings shed light on how aphantasia, a condition where a person can not imaging mental images, may occur.

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·May 3, 2020·4 min read

AI supported test for very early signs of glaucoma progression

A new artificial intelligence algorithm can detect the progression of glaucoma up to 18 months earlier than conventional methods.

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·May 1, 2020·5 min read

New gene therapy for complete color blindness tested in patients

New gene therapy may help those with achromatopsia, or complete color blindness, to improve visual function. The treatment targets the CNGA3 gene, which is implicated in one-third of achromatopsia cases.

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·May 1, 2020·5 min read

Seeing is Conceiving

Visually represented information is a functional part of conceptual knowledge. The extend of the visual representations is influenced by visual experience.

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·April 30, 2020·2 min read

Eyes send an unexpected signal to the brain

A new study puts into question conventional belief that the eyes communicate with the brain exclusively via one signaling pathway. Researchers have identified a subset of retinal neurons that sends inhibitory signals to the brain. This subset of neurons is also involved in the synchronization of circadian rhythms to light/dark cycles and pupil constriction to bright light intensity.

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·April 28, 2020·4 min read

How mistakes help us recognize things

Contextual information, especially space and sequence, contributes to the distortion of perception in short-term memory.

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·April 26, 2020·2 min read

Neuropeptide somatostatin enhances visual processing

The neuropeptide somatostatin improves visual processing and cognitive behaviors by reducing excitatory inputs to parvalbumin-positive interneurons in mice.

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·April 10, 2020·5 min read

Video games improve the visual attention of expert players

If you're playing video games to help kill time during social distancing, you might be improving your visual attention abilities. Researchers found experienced gamers have faster information processing abilities and can allocate more cognitive power to individual visual stimuli. Playing video games can cause long-term changes in the brain and lead to improvements in temporal visual selective attention.