Summary: Researchers discovered how the brain develops reliable visual processing once the eyes open. Early on, visual inputs and modular brain responses are mismatched, creating inconsistent patterns ...

Learn more about the activity patterns in the brain, which differ for different colors in a surprisingly similar way.

As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain ...

Scientists cannot say for certain, but new research suggests that different people’s brains respond similarly when looking at ...

Whether we're staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

Research links racial bias to subtle shifts in perception, showing how stereotypes may influence brain activity during object ...

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 ...

Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs. The ball and the water behave very differently, and it turns out that your brain has ...

Whether we're staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

We take our understanding of where we are for granted, until we lose it. When we get lost in nature or a new city, our eyes ...

For decades, doctors have noticed a rare burst of visual creativity that occurs among a small number of patients with dementia, echoing the same strange phenomenon among patients who have had a stroke ...

Scientists discovered how the brain uses objects to anchor our sense of direction, solving part of the mystery of spatial navigation.