New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are ...

MIT scientists explore how the brain seamlessly processes visual information from both eyes without a perceptible seam, ...

You may not be able to decipher what’s in every photo, but now your iPhone can. With Apple’s new iOS 17 feature, "Visual Look Up," you can do just that. ‘Visual Look Up’ lets you snap a picture and ...

Children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder may see the world in subtly different ways compared to their peers, according to a new study published in the Journal of Attention ...

New Haven, Conn. — 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 ...

Neuroscientists have revealed the precise connections between sensory neurons inside the retina and the superior colliculus, a structure in the midbrain. Neuropixels probes are a relatively recent ...

Our eyes are continuously bombarded by an enormous amount of visual information—millions of shapes, colors, and ever-changing motion all around us. For the brain, this is no easy feat. On the one hand ...

The visual cortex evolved to receive, process, and integrate visual information that enters the brain through the eyes. The information that is processed in the visual cortex is then transferred to ...

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