Researchers have settled a 60-year-old debate in neuroscience, proving that the visual cortex constructs complex images from raw thalamic data. Using high-resolution synaptic imaging, the study ...

How does the brain see the "big picture"? A new study reveals that the primary visual cortex (V1) calculates statistical ...

A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled.

When animals move through complex visual environments, the brain cannot afford to analyze every detail one by one. Instead, ...

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 ...

Every illusion has a backstage crew. New research shows the brain’s own “puppet strings”—special neurons that quietly tug our perception—help us see edges and shapes that don’t actually exist. When ...

How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in everyday life, perceive the duration of events around us? The answer lies in how ...

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 ...