How does the brain create mental images? A new study reveals that visual imagination and perception share a common neural code.

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

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

Already in the 1960s, Hubel and Wiesel proposed a model according to which visual perception is the result of orderly, stepwise computations in the ...

Researchers have settled a 60-year-old debate in neuroscience, proving that the visual cortex constructs complex images from ...

Why can images of things we have seen seem so real when we later recall them from memory? A new study led by Cedars-Sinai ...

With 12 colour receptors, the mantis shrimp seems visually unmatched. But studies reveal that their visual system likely ...

This brings new meaning to “male gaze.” There’s perhaps a reason people see the “man” — and not the woman — in the moon.

Daniel Kish lost both eyes to retinal cancer before he was two years old. By the time he was a teenager, he was mountain ...