Researchers have implanted a third participant with a wireless brain device that bypasses the eyes to stimulate the visual cortex, aiming to restore artificial vision. The Intracortical Visual ...
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 ...
Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of neuroscience and psychology studies. Most past studies focusing on the visual cortex ...
A brain that develops in the deprivation of one sense reorganizes itself in surprising ways, revealing remarkable ...
Dreaming serves to protect the brain’s visual cortex from being overtaken by other sensory inputs. The brain’s peak ...
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 ...
Does the deaf brain "see" with its ears? New research shows the auditory cortex maps visual space through selective deactivation, a breakthrough in neuroplasticity.
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 ...