Visual functions, such as the perception of motion direction, start to develop soon after birth and continue to mature over time as infants gain more experience with the world. However, direct evidence of how this maturation ...
Sep 29, 2015
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A group of researchers at Osaka University found that neurons in the monkey visual cortical area V4, one of the areas in the visual cortex, calculate the size of an object based on information on its retinal image size and ...
Sep 28, 2015
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(Medical Xpress)—The adaptive advantage of the visual perception of transparency is obvious: the urgent need to find water. Thus, human vision is able to perceive two layers at the same retinal location—a transparent ...
California man Mike May made international headlines in 2000 when his sight was restored by a pioneering stem cell procedure after 40 years of blindness.
Apr 15, 2015
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Experienced nannies and doctors have always known how much the visual contact with a newborn can convey. A recent Finnish study provides scientific evidence for this everyday belief. A study performed in the University of ...
Mar 24, 2015
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The headlights – two eyes, the radiator cowling – a smiling mouth: This is how our brain sometimes creates a face out of a car front. The same happens with other objects: in house facades, trees or stones – a "human ...
May 21, 2014
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that's the information volume transmitted every second with every quick eye movement from the eye to the cerebrum. Researchers from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the University of Osnabrück describe the way those ...
Dec 17, 2013
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(Medical Xpress)—When faced with a choice, the brain retrieves specific traces of memories, rather than a generalized overview of past experiences, from its mental Rolodex, according to new brain-imaging research from The ...
Nov 8, 2013
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The sweep of a needle across the grooves of a worn vinyl record carries distinct sounds: hisses, scratches, even the echo of skips. For many years, though, those yearning to hear Frank Sinatra sing "Fly Me to the Moon" have ...
Sep 20, 2013
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Even though our eyes are constantly moving, the brain perceives the external world as stationary—a feat achieved by integrating images acquired by the retina with information about the direction of the gaze. An international ...
Sep 20, 2013
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