Without us even noticing it, our brains are the ultimate multitaskers. The brain’s prefrontal cortex can tell us when it is ...

To do so, they trained macaque monkeys — a species whose visual systems and abilities are most similar to humans — to fixate on the center of a screen while visual stimuli were presented in and ...

Fong CY, Law WHC, Braithwaite JJ, et al. Differences in early and late pattern-onset visual-evoked potentials between self-reported migraineurs and controls [published online December 16, 2019].

The biggest surprise to us was that the visual cortex was very involved in the differences between the slow and fast learners. That suggests there's something about visual information that is key ...

Researchers at Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF), led by Prof. Vincent Bonin, have published two new studies uncovering how visual information is processed and distributed in the brain.

When you see something—a tree in your backyard, say, or the toy your toddler hands you—that visual information travels from ...

The visual thalamus is classically known to relay visual stimuli coming from the retina to the cerebral cortex. Researchers now show that although neurons in the mouse visual thalamus connect to ...

Nearly half of humanity speaks more than one language, and many adults can read and master several writing systems. How does the visual cortex adapt to the recognition of words written with ...

Blindsight is a condition that results from damage to the primary visual cortex, the part of the brain responsible for vision. Even though the injury causes vision loss, other parts of the brain ...

Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these ...