The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology ...

Are you on a lean journey? Have you been successful in achieving improvements? Have the results been sustainable? Is the majority of your team engaged in problem solving? These are most likely the ...

Poor visual acuity, defined as difficulty discerning letters or numbers at a given distance, is associated with depression in middle-aged and older individuals, new research suggests. After multiple ...

New research has discovered why our brain might be so good at perceiving edges and contours. Neurons that respond to different parts of elongated edges are connected and thus exchange information.

Babies take their first major strides with their eyes, not their legs, as they rapidly distinguish among playpens, pacifiers, and a plethora of other objects. These feats of sight draw on infants’ ...

An Occipital Structure Sensor body scan in progress. (Photo via Occipital PR library). I’m standing on the rear cargo door of a S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjet, just as Captain America did before his famous leap ...

The author creates 'sonic structures', or music, not with the usual background and perspectives of a musician but with those of a visual artist. In this article he discusses first the historic spatial ...

New study combines a novel approach using patterned optogenetics with electrophysiology, circuit mapping, and computational ...

The superior colliculus, an ancestral brain structure, performs visual computations once thought to be exclusive to the cortex. The study combines a ...