A closed-loop cortical implant generates functional percepts of shape, motion, and letters in two individuals with acquired ...

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the brain just wants to take it easy. In A Nutshell Your brain prefers images that require less energy to process. Researchers found that photos people ...

Blindsight describes the phenomenon whereby individuals with damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) retain certain visually guided behaviours despite an absence of conscious visual perception. In ...

MIT scientists found that what we see is strongly influenced by how alert or active we are. Parts of the brain responsible ...

Neuroscientists discovered anatomical changes that occur in the white matter of visual-processing areas of the brain, in children who have congenital cataracts surgically removed. For many decades, ...

A schematic view of the main findings, adapting from a brain figure in the study. Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language ...

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

By Priyanjana Pramanik, MSc. New ultra–high-field brain scans reveal hidden body maps inside the visual system, showing how ...

A new study in Neuron reveals that the brain’s executive center sends highly specialized, context-dependent instructions to ...

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...