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?

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

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

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Eye patches aren’t just for pirates and villains. In Elio, Disney/Pixar introduces a young hero with a patch – and breaks old ...

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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.

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Brain Involvement: CVI encompasses a spectrum of visual impairments that involve an underlying brain abnormality affecting the development of visual pathways (the brain's neural connections that ...