The visual system is probably the best understood part of the brain. Over the past 75 years, neuroscientists have assembled a detailed account of how light waves entering your eyes allow you to ...

New research shows how the visual system contributes to memory. When we use our working memory, we temporarily retain information in our brain. For instance, you are able to comprehend this sentence ...

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A new study questions the longstanding view that the visual system is divided into two pathways, one for object-recognition and the other for spatial tasks. Using computational vision models, ...

"We hoped that the visual map might be there, but nobody had directly observed it before," Niell said. The octopus neurons also responded particularly strongly to small light spots and big dark spots, ...

The visual system is probably the best understood part of the brain. Over the past 75 years, neuroscientists have assembled a detailed account of how light waves entering your eyes allow you to ...