For more than 30 years, psychophysical studies of visual pattern discrimination have paralleled research on the neurophysiological response properties of neurons in the visual cortex 1,2. The ...

A new study shows that the brain activity behind decision-making is far more widespread across the organ than first thought.

Those who suffer from migraines have a hyperexcitable visual cortex, according to a study published in Neuroimage: Clinical. This is the first reported evidence establishing a link between ...

Researchers discover a new visual pathway that bypasses the primary visual cortex, previously considered essential to all visual processing, in mice.

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 ...

An ultrasound device that can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery has been developed by researchers ...

A US-based research team has successfully demonstrated how dynamic stimulation of the visual cortex enables blind and sighted people to “see” shapes – a technique that could one day be used to convey ...

Research released today in Nature Neuroscience finds that we are are more likely to be tricked by a visual illusion if we have a smaller amount of brain real estate devoted to visual processing ...

The more complex types of computer vision require artificial intelligence (AI) to process the input, just as anything more complex than a reflex reaction to human vision needs a visual cortex.