Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

Elon Musk recently pronounced that the next Neuralink project will be a “Blindsight” cortical implant to restore vision: “Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics, but ultimately ...

Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs. The ball and the water behave very differently, and it turns out that your brain has ...

Learning to read is not easy, but it is made more difficult for a child who cannot see the words and letters on the page correctly. It may not be a problem with their eyes, though. Even children with ...

A child reaches for a toy, hesitates, then turns away — not because their eyes cannot see it, but because their brain cannot ...

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 ...

The way a brain tumour influences eyesight largely depends on its location and type. Tumours that develop close to the optic nerve or within areas of the brain responsible for processing vision are ...

The occipital lobe is the brain's essential visual processing centre, responsible for interpreting everything we see ...

Optical illusions are like mini brain tests that are designed to challenge your perception, observation, and visual ...