A small team of brain researchers at South China Normal University, working with a colleague from the University of New South Wales, has found that the visual processing parts of the brain light up in ...

The human brain can learn through experience to filter out disturbing and distracting stimuli—such as a glaring roadside billboard or a flashing banner on the internet. Scientists at Leipzig ...

Professional visual artists have distinctive patterns of brain structure and activity that appear to support the vivid mental ...

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like telling a leaf apart from a rock. But they have struggled to build ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study. Our ability to store ...

Functional imaging has transformed our understanding of how the human brain processes visual information and supports cognitive functions, particularly in the context of disease. Non-invasive ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in Trieste, published in PLOS Computational Biology. The research shows that, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock In a significant step forward for vision-restoration technology, researchers have successfully implanted a ...

Reading difficulties, like dyslexia, are common and often affect achievement and outcomes during school and later in life. A ...

Learning to read is not easy, but it is made more difficult for a child who cannot see the words and letters on the page correctly. It may not be a problem with their eyes, though. Even children with ...