Brain circuits for vision develop without any kind of input from the retina in zebrafish. Animals possess specialized networks of neurons in the brain that receive signals about the outside world from ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

Contrary to what is often believed, our vision does not passively capture the world like a camera. Neuroscientists have discovered that what animals see is in reality constantly transformed by their ...

Each year, thousands of stroke survivors are left with hemianopia, a condition that causes loss of half of their visual field (the “vertical midline”). Hemianopia severely affects daily activities ...

Researchers have investigated brain development to understand how different areas of the brain become specialized in handling information such as vision, sound, touch and planning. In a new study ...

Vision feels like a camera feed from the eyes, but new work on a hidden brain circuit suggests what we see is constantly edited by internal signals about how alert, focused, or distracted we are.

How do neurons in the brain ensure we see both the forest and the trees? New research by the Alessandra Angelucci Laboratory at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah offers insight ...

When an object crosses the visual field, the brain's hemispheres hand off information about the object like relay runners handing off a baton: For a a moment boht sides are holding on to ensure a ...

In my recent post "Of Spider-Man Movies and Other 3D Thrillers," I shared a question-and-answer exchange with Dr. Barry Sandrew, founder and CTO/CCO of Legend3D, a leading innovator in 2D-to-3D ...