Visual systems of both humans and animals can detect life motion from the environment at the earliest stage of visual ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute-led research has uncovered three neural circuit mechanisms that enable female fruit flies to ...

CVI is a spectrum of visual impairments caused by an underlying brain abnormality that affects the development of visual ...

The retina is often called an “outpost of the brain” because crucial visual signal processing happens in the eye’s nerve ...

How that visual "clutter" affects visual processing in the brain, however, is not well understood. In a new study published Oct. 22 in the journal Neuron, Yale researchers show that this clutter ...

The first condition is called visual processing disorder or VPD. It's a neurological condition that makes it difficult for the brain to interpret what it sees. Kids and adults with VPD have issues ...

Experts convened by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified five elements of a brain-based condition that has ...

The complexity of our brain is so great that we are not simple and neither, therefore, is the task of understanding it.” — ...

The retina is often referred to as an "outpost of the brain"—after all, important steps in visual signal processing do not ...

Using microelectrodes, scientists could show that cells in the retina play different roles. The produce different signals, which is important for the processing of visual information. These ...