Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

There are two main theories that pertain to the role of the primary visual cortex (V1) in visual awareness. Hierarchical models propose that although V1 provides necessary input, only high-level ...

We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...

How does your brain instantly know how to move through new places? A new study helps explain the science behind your internal ...

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

Yale researchers have discovered a process in the primate brain that sheds new light on how visual systems work and could ...

Probing the roles of binocular neurons in different perceptual tasks has advanced our understanding of the stages within the visual cortex that lead to binocular depth perception.

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People who can no longer move or speak may soon have a new option: an implanted device that links their brain to a computer.

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like telling a leaf apart from a rock. But they have struggled to build ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports has introduced a promising diagnostic tool that could dramatically shorten the ...

Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these ...