The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped researchers discover unprecedented details about how individual brain cells ...

An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of the image below, the sensory input is four Pac Man–like black figures. But ...

The human visual system excels in interpreting complex visual scenes, with symmetry perception playing a pivotal role in organising sensory input into coherent representations. Visual symmetry ...

Our memories are rich in detail: we can vividly recall the color of our home, the layout of our kitchen, or the front of our favorite café. How the brain encodes this information has long puzzled ...

Diagram of the ventral fronto-temporal network operations necessary for visual object memory. During perception (left), neurons in the anterior ventral temporal cortex (aVTC) are primarily activated ...

How do neurons react to magic mushrooms? What happens in the brain when we see motion, or when we recognize grain patterns in a piece of wood? How do our brains track the subtle changes in our friends ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bilal Haider, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Despite the nursery ...

Researchers investigate how mice process illusions, highlighting the neural circuitry involved in seeing and perception. An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn’t match the ...