Neuroscientists studying the eye’s blind spot have found that brain cells in the primary visual cortex, or V1, fire even when ...

New research shows how psychedelics alter visual processing and boost memory-linked brain circuits to generate hallucinations, revealing mechanisms with therapeutic implications.

Every illusion has a backstage crew. New research shows the brain’s own “puppet strings”—special neurons that quietly tug our perception—help us see edges and shapes that don’t actually exist. When ...

Psychedelics can quiet the brain’s visual input system, pushing it to replace missing details with vivid fragments from ...

A single clear image can rewire the visual brain, making later recognition faster without relying on memory systems.

Mathematical models have long provided a robust framework for understanding the intricate processes underlying visual perception and neural processing. By combining principles from differential ...

Glass patterns have long served as a paradigmatic tool for unravelling the mechanisms underlying visual form perception and the integration of motion cues. These intricate stimuli, composed of ...

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 ...

A patient with complete blindness caused by irreversible optic nerve damage partially recovered natural vision after ...

It may seem remarkable, but significant evidence shows that humans could learn this sound-based “superpower” with some practice.

In the 1860s, physician Hermann von Helmholtz did a simple experiment to understand how the world stays still during eye movements. With a still head, he closed one eye and swiveled the other to look ...

That sharp flinch during a violent movie scene is familiar to many people. A hand slams, a body falls, and your own muscles ...