When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For decades, scientists have hypothesized that one of these pathways ...

Now they have found that this so-called "contagious itching" is controlled through a visual pathway, that surprisingly, operates independently of the visual cortex, the area of the brain that ...

These insights into the fruit fly’s anterior visual pathway contribute to a suite of papers reporting the neuronal wiring of the entire fruit fly brain, published in the journal Nature.

Researchers discover a new visual pathway that bypasses the primary visual cortex in mice, a structure previously considered essential to all visual processing. The newly discovered pathway (red).

Interestingly, the results show two distinct contrast effects which informed us about the involvement of two visual pathways. Higher contrast in pre-saccadic stimuli enhanced observers ...

Seeing through the eyes of a crab New research provides insight into the visual world of a crustacean Date: July 16, 2018 Source: Society for Neuroscience Summary: Crabs combine the input from ...

A pathway that can reroute visual information and potentially prevent blindness has been discovered by scientists. Researchers at Monash University in Australia have found that areas of the brain ...

1a). The fact that this pathway bypasses the cortex is thought to imbue the processing of emotion-laden visual stimuli with the above list of properties. Given that the standard hypothesis is ...

“We’ve been able to show where it happens in the visual pathway, which is relatively early,” said Prof. Steven Shevell, a leading scholar of color and brightness perception. “It’s like a road map that ...