Dr. Fortenbacher says visual processing skills allow a child to understand spatial relationships, recognize letter orientation and coordinate vision with motor movement when writing.

Dyslexic thinkers are notably strong in creativity, visual-spatial reasoning (skills such as visualizing objects and understanding spatial relationships) and holistic processing (recognizing a whole, ...

Notably, this lateralization of processing appears specific to spatial information. Non-spatial features, such as color or shape, are processed bilaterally. Coordinated handoffs across hemispheres ...

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for ...

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 ...

Find out what you need to know about your occipital lobe and its function. Learn about signs of an injury and how to keep the occipital lobe healthy.

Nonverbal learning disability (NVLD), a poorly understood and often-overlooked disorder that causes problems with visual-spatial processing, may affect nearly 3 million children in the United ...

HBP researchers have trained a large-scale model of the primary visual cortex of the mouse to solve visual tasks in a highly robust way.