A recent study conducted by researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) reveals insights into the functioning of the visual cortex of macaques. The findings, published in Cell Reports, ...

A Yale study explores how visual clutter influences perception, showing that its location affects information efficiency in the brain. By studying macaque monkeys, researchers found that while clutter ...

Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds, behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published Nov. 25 in Neuron, finds in mice that via specific circuits, ...

Every illusion has a backstage crew. New research shows the brain’s own “puppet strings”—special neurons that quietly tug our perception—help us see edges and shapes that don’t actually exist. When ...

A patient with complete blindness caused by irreversible optic nerve damage partially recovered natural vision after ...

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 ...

Transport of the Otx2 protein from the eye to the brain may initiate visual cortex plasticity The researchers’ findings indicate that the Otx2 made in the eye could be transported along the pathway ...

Newborns track faces from birth. But what happens when screens replace human eyes? The answer may shape how the next generation reads emotions and connects with others.