Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of neuroscience and psychology studies. Most past studies focusing on the visual cortex ...

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

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

A global consortium of scientists has created the first and most detailed "developmental maps" of the mammalian brain (from ...

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 ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...

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

Photosensitive epilepsy is a type of epilepsy in which certain visual stimuli — such as flickering lights or contrasting ...

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 ...

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 ...