New research shows that the superior colliculus, a primitive brain region, can independently interpret visual information.

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in ...

Blindness profoundly affects people's lives. Around the world, several laboratories, including the Biomedical ...

The best time for learning may be when you feel exhausted. In A Nutshell Rats’ brains respond differently to the same ...

Scientists have created an advanced visual neuroprosthesis that communicates bidirectionally with the brain, marking one of ...

A crash in visual processing can occur when the brain is overwhelmed with more information than it can handle and visual stimuli do not make the full journey to and from the front of the brain, ...

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for processing color and fine spatial detail, and another that's involved in ...

Researchers at Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF), led by Prof. Vincent Bonin, have published two new studies uncovering how visual information is processed and distributed in the brain. The ...

A new discovery has unraveled why we sometimes see colors that aren't there. The phenomenon of "color afterimages" is when ...

New research has made a striking link between a mother’s exposure to “forever chemicals” during pregnancy and the shape of ...