Blindness profoundly affects people's lives. Around the world, several laboratories, including the Biomedical ...

The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology ...

Scientists have created an advanced visual neuroprosthesis that communicates bidirectionally with the brain, marking one of ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in ...

A new discovery has unraveled why we sometimes see colors that aren't there. The phenomenon of "color afterimages" is when ...

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 ...

A collection of studies that chart how mammalian brain cells grow and differentiate is a ‘very valuable’ tool for ...

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...

Psychedelics and Parkinson’s may trigger hallucinations through the same system, revealing how fragile the balance is between ...

An effort to map the way the brains of those with autism are genetically unique from neurotypical individuals has found that the differences go well beyond regions involved in social behavior and ...

The superior colliculus, an ancestral brain structure, performs visual computations once thought to be exclusive to the cortex. The study combines a ...