A new study in Neuron reveals that the brain’s executive center sends highly specialized, context-dependent instructions to the visual system rather than a generic broadcast signal. The findings ...

Research reveals why some images feel pleasing while others uncomfortable. The brain prefers visuals that cost less energy.

(BPT) - What do you and your favorite professional athlete have in common? You both use your eye sight each day to live life to the fullest. Whether it’s scoring the winning goal or making that ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study. Our ability to store ...

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 ...

Dyslexia impacts more than reading ability. Children with dyslexia pick up visual information slower than their typically developing peers, according to new research published in JNeurosci. Some ...

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 ...

This week Gibbs looks at a language straight out of the CS labs called Processing. Designed for creating visual output, Processing is simple and easy to use yet powerful enough for serious ...