Researchers have uncovered how primate brains transform flat, 2D visual inputs into rich, 3D mental representations of ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports has introduced a promising diagnostic tool that could dramatically shorten the long wait times many families face when seeking evaluations for autism and ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The fundamental insights are that the visual system is organized as a modular hierarchy to encode an internal model of the world, and that perception is realized by statistical inference based on such ...

Visual concepts play a significant role in human cognition. The question of how past experience guides the formation of the visual concept system has been contentious for decades. There have been ...

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 trained macaque monkeys to judge the orientation of ambiguous stimuli and additionally report their confidence in these judgments. We recorded population activity in the primary visual cortex and ...

However, research targeting other brain regions associated with motor and cognitive processes, such as the motor cortex, remains scarce. Furthermore, the impact of varying task difficulty on brain ...

Rodent medial prefrontal cortex is not crucial for an active place avoidance task requiring cognitive control evidenced by hippocampal activity that purposefully alternates between task-relevant and ...