Gravity is the unseen force that dominates our entire lives. It's what makes walking uphill so difficult and what makes parts of our body eventually point downhill. It is unyielding, everywhere, and a force that we battle ...
Jan 24, 2020
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Long before a baby opens its eyes for the first time, the brain is ready to start decoding visual stimuli.
Jan 20, 2020
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have successfully used a laser-assisted imaging tool to "see" what happens in brain cells of mice learning to reach out and grab a pellet of food. Their experiments, they say, add to ...
Jan 2, 2020
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A Dartmouth study finds that the conscious perception of visual location occurs in the frontal lobes of the brain, rather than in the visual system in the back of the brain. The findings are published in Current Biology.
Dec 14, 2019
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In decades of studying how neural circuits in the brain's visual cortex adapt to experience, MIT Professor Mark Bear's lab has followed the science wherever it has led, yielding the discovery of cellular mechanisms serving ...
Dec 13, 2019
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A team of scientists led by Karl Farrow at NeuroElectronics Research Flanders (NERF, empowered by imec, KU Leuven and VIB) is unraveling how our brain processes visual information. They identified specific roles for distinct ...
Dec 2, 2019
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Neuroscientists at the University of Glasgow have gained new insight into how the brain predicts missing visual information when perceiving the outside world.
Nov 13, 2019
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Researchers at the Aston Neuroscience Institute (ANI), Aston University, in Birmingham, UK have found differences in the brainwaves of autistic teenagers responsible for their visual perception, which could assist in earlier ...
Nov 5, 2019
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Our brains are so primed to recognize faces—or to tell people apart—that we rarely even stop to think about it, but what happens in the brain when it engages in such recognition is still far from understood. In a new ...
Oct 30, 2019
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Georgetown University neuroscientists say they have identified how people can have a "crash in visual processing"—a bottleneck of feedforward and feedback signals that can cause us not to be consciously aware of stimuli ...
Oct 23, 2019
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