And that a different set of face-sensitive visual regions-again in almost identical positions in each reader's brain-would activate to process the faces of the researchers, should you meet them?

A new model reads brain signals to identify memory categories, which could help develop memory-restoring tools for cognitive ...

Now, an ambitious Microsoft-funded project at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is studying the neural activity ...

A new study has uncovered how the brain efficiently encodes and recalls visual memories—by organizing them into categories ...

Lawrence Sincich, Ph.D. Lawrence Sincich, Ph.D., professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry was ...

The study involved a small sample of individuals born blind who underwent repeated functional MRI scans over two years.

Levelt says, "In earlier studies from the 80s, researchers injected astrocytes from a kitten into the visual cortex of an older cat, the brain area involved in vision.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Hubel and Wiesel continued their partnership, focusing on how visual input affects development, now using monkeys. 5 To do this, they tuned the inputs that each eye ...

Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start-it becomes refined by what ...

Scientists found that virtual forest experiences using sight, sound, and scent offer measurable mood and memory boosts, ...

Psychology research suggests that the human body, particularly the muscles on our face, plays a key part in the processing of others' emotions. For instance, past findings suggest that when we see ...