Researchers induce people to perceive colors that were't really there and provide evidence that the V1 and V2 visual areas are capable of associative learning.
Visual Neuroscience
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.
According to researchers, dressmakers are the most eagle eyed.
Omega 3 fatty acids and DHA can help photoreceptors and RPEs to survive damage or disease, helping to protect vision.
Perception of social interactions unfolds through pupil dilation. The findings shed light on the visual system's role in sensitivity to social interactions.
According to researchers, fly brains take typical features of the environment into account when calculating motion.
Researchers provide new evidence of brain plasticity. A new study reveals visual cortex neurons sprout new axons and shed some old ones as animals improve at perceptual learning tasks.
According to researchers, people believe inferred visual objects generated in the brain to be more reliable than external images from the real world.
People with hyperphantasia, the ability to visualize vividly, have stronger connections between their visual brain network and decision-making networks. By contrast, those with aphantasia, an inability to visualize, have weaker connections between the brain regions.
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Whether a person is familiar to the animal or not, horses integrate human facial expressions and vocal tones to perceive human emotion, a new study reports.
Bilingual people are better able to integrate sight and sound to make sense of speech, a new study reveals. Researchers report, in addition to altering basic sensory experiences, learning a second language can impact memory, decision making and cognitive control.
A newly discovered retinal cell may cause myopia when it dysfunctions, researchers report.
Restoring mitochondrial homeostasis in diseased neurons can protect the optic nerve from being damaged and potentially reverse symptoms of glaucoma.
