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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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·July 22, 2019·4 min read

When you spot 1 driving hazard, you may be missing another

Subsequent search miss causes a reduction in the ability to detect an additional hazard when they spot another. The findings could help modify driver training to help reduce accidents and to develop in-vehicle technologies that focus on accident reduction.

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·July 18, 2019·5 min read

Stimulating neurons to induce particular perceptions in mice’s minds

Using optogenetics, researchers stimulated neurons in the visual cortex of mice to induce illusory images in the animals' minds.

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·July 17, 2019·3 min read

What You Think Is What You See

Perception and working memory are more deeply entangled than previously believed.

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·July 11, 2019·3 min read

Area of brain associated with spatial awareness and planning actions also plays crucial role in decision making

The posterior parietal cortex, an area of the brain implicated in spatial awareness, plays a critical role in visual decision making.

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·July 9, 2019·4 min read

Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces

Facial processing and color processing may engage in similar brain mechanisms.

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·July 8, 2019·3 min read

Retina restructures itself after cell death

Gene therapy can restore the structure of the retina and regain normal light responses.

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·July 6, 2019·6 min read

Why are we able to see moving objects against moving backgrounds?

The human brain can desensitize background motion and focus on smaller moving objects in the foreground as a result of activity in the middle temporal visual area. However, our ability to pick out smaller objects changes over time. Younger people are better at picking out foreground objects moving, while those over 65 have heightened awareness of objects moving in the background.

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·July 5, 2019·5 min read

Researchers controlled the behavior in a mouse’s brain with single-cell precision

Using holographic optogenetics, researchers were able to control visual behavior in mice by activating neurons in the visual cortex.

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·July 1, 2019·3 min read

Smart glasses follow our eyes and focus automatically

A newly designed set of 'smart glasses' could help to correct the vision of millions of people with age-related presbyopia. The autofocals work much like the eyes and include eye tracking sensors which enable to triangulate where a person is looking and determine the precise distance of the object.

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·June 28, 2019·3 min read

Brain cells for 3D vision discovered

Researchers have identified neurons in the brains of praying mantises that are able to compute 3D direction and distance. The findings may help to develop better technology for machine and robotic vision.

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·June 27, 2019·3 min read

Deciphering how the brain encodes color and shape

Visual neurons selectively respond to color and shape along a continuum. While some neurons are only activated by either a specific color or shape, others are responsive to color and shape simultaneously. The findings contradict previous beliefs about how visual processing works.