Without us even noticing it, our brains are the ultimate multitaskers. The brain’s prefrontal cortex can tell us when it is ...

Nearly half of humanity speaks more than one language, and many adults can read and master several writing systems. How does the visual cortex adapt to the recognition of words written with ...

In a new study published Oct. 22 in the journal Neuron, Yale researchers show that this clutter alters how information flows in the brain, as does the precise location of that clutter within the wider ...

The apple test also introduces a spectrum of visual imagery, which shows two conditions that fall at either end: aphantasia ...

Your work demonstrated that orientation selectivity develops in the visual cortex even without visual experience. How did this finding challenge the existing views on the nature of sensory ...

The biggest surprise to us was that the visual cortex was very involved in the differences between the slow and fast learners.

Your visual cortex relays that information to secondary visual processing areas. These secondary areas interpret depth, distance, location, and the identity of the objects you see.

UNSW Sydney and Macquarie University psychology researchers have written an article warning that psychedelic therapies may ...

David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel discovered how the cerebral cortex processes visual information. Their research won them the Nobel Prize and revolutionized our understanding of the brain.