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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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·November 25, 2019·2 min read

Environmental enrichment corrects errors in brain development

Environmental enrichment can help correct mismapped neurons in the visual pathways of mice.

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·November 25, 2019·5 min read

Babies in the womb may see more than we thought

Light sensitive cells in the fetal retina communicate as part of an interconnected network, giving the retina more light sensitivity during development that previously believed.

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·November 21, 2019·3 min read

Some hyper-realistic masks more believable than human faces

New hyper-realistic masks are so authentic that 20% of the time, people believe they are real faces.

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·November 20, 2019·4 min read

Walking changes vision

Walking leads to an increase in processing of peripheral visual input.

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·November 20, 2019·3 min read

Beauty in the biased eye of the beholder

When we see a painting, we rate its aesthetic value based upon other artwork we have just seen.

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·October 23, 2019·3 min read

Why, Sometimes, We Don’t See What We Actually Saw

Crashes in visual processing occur when neurons processing one image are tasked with processing another too quickly. This results in either one or both images being unable to reach our conscious awareness.

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·October 15, 2019·3 min read

Happy, angry or neutral expressions? Eyes react just as fast

The initial reaction of the brain is independent of the facial emotional expression we see. It is only after the eye movement is completed that the brain shows strong responses to the emotional expression of a face.

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·September 23, 2019·2 min read

How the brain repurposes unused regions

There is an underlying organization that dictates how the visual cortex is repurposed in blind people, which is not random.

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·September 18, 2019·3 min read

Learning to read boosts the visual brain

Learning to read enhances responses to other visual input in early visual areas of the brain.

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·September 17, 2019·5 min read

Brain may not need body movements to learn virtual spaces

Vision appears to play a more dominant role than motor movements when it comes to encoding memory of large-scale spaces. The findings address a long-standing debate as to whether or not body movements aid the learning of physical spaces.

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·September 13, 2019·4 min read

New insights into how astrocytes help the brain process information

Noradrenaline is essential for astrocytes to respond to local stimulation.

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·September 3, 2019·4 min read

Human perception of colors does not rely entirely on language

Based on the study of a stroke patient with damage to the occipito-temporal brain region, researchers made a big discovery about color categorization. They reveal color categorization and naming can be independent in the human brain. The finding challenges long-standing theories of the mandatory involvement of language in adult human cognition and color discrimination.

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Visual Neuroscience

Environmental enrichment corrects errors in brain development

Babies in the womb may see more than we thought

Some hyper-realistic masks more believable than human faces

Walking changes vision

Beauty in the biased eye of the beholder

Why, Sometimes, We Don’t See What We Actually Saw

Happy, angry or neutral expressions? Eyes react just as fast

How the brain repurposes unused regions

Learning to read boosts the visual brain

Brain may not need body movements to learn virtual spaces

New insights into how astrocytes help the brain process information

Human perception of colors does not rely entirely on language

Salt-Nicotine E-Cigarettes Triple Smoking Cessation Odds

Adult Brain Recycles Prenatal Genetic Playbook for Memory

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New Math Method Inflates Alzheimer’s Drug Success by 29x

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