Seeing feels immediate; we open our eyes and the world seems to appear as a continuous stream. But some visual illusions show ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the expansion of the primate neocortex may be linked to enhanced visual processing rather than an independently growing frontal lobe, shedding light on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research suggests targeted visual processing training may support cognitive health and potentially reduce dementia risk as the brain ages.

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, ...

How does the brain make sense of what we see, hear and feel, and transform these separate signals into a coherent perception of the world?

For decades, depression has been tied to the thinking brain and the networks that govern mood and memory. A major new study significantly complicates that story.