Patients with autism may have altered visual processing, which could serve as an objective, nonverbal neural marker of the disorder, new research suggests. Using electroencephalography (EEG), ...

Blindsight describes the phenomenon whereby individuals with damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) retain certain visually guided behaviours despite an absence of conscious visual perception. In ...

Individuals battling major depressive episodes were found to have abnormal visual processing, according to a Finnish study suggesting the altered perception involves changes in the cerebral cortex.

Our hands do more than just hold objects. They also facilitate the processing of visual stimuli. When you move your hands, your brain first perceives and interprets sensory information, then it ...

The brain has always been referred to as the super computer of the body. Millions of connections happen just to make a simple move like picking up a spoon or scratching an itch. The cerebral cortex is ...

Georgetown neuroscientists say they have identified how people can have a "crash in visual processing" - a bottleneck of feedforward and feedback signals that can cause us not to be consciously aware ...

The ability of the brain to take in what the eyes see, process it through the neuronal networks and recognize objects and places that are stored in the brain’s memory is not well understood, but ...

A new online visual challenge requires finding a single lowercase 'd' hidden among numerous 'b's within nine seconds. This ...

Learn how early reptiles began building the visual and brain skills needed for flight long before takeoff.