Researchers have uncovered how primate brains transform flat, 2D visual inputs into rich, 3D mental representations of ...

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

"This gives us evidence that the goal of vision is to establish a 3D understanding of an object," said study senior author ...

Different parts of the brain have been carefully mapped, so we have some idea of what parts of the brain are used to perceive our environment, move our bodies, or solve problems, for example. In ...

New research reveals how early-life blurry, low-color vision may help shape the brain’s visual pathways into specialized systems.

The human brain is a complex and unfathomable supercomputer. How it works is one of the ultimate mysteries of our time. Scientists working in the exciting field of computational neuroscience seek ...

The image that we see is rapidly analyzed by a complex hierarchy of cortical and subcortical brain regions. Hierarchy of our visual system. Neurons in low level brain regions extract basic features ...

How brain rhythms organize our visual perception Date: September 9, 2019 Source: Deutsches Primatenzentrum (DPZ)/German Primate Center Summary: Imagine that you are watching a crowded hang-gliding ...

The visual brain colors black and white images Date: October 31, 2013 Source: Universitaet Tübingen Summary: The perception and processing of color has fascinated neuroscientists for a long time ...

Here are seven more glorious images from neuroscience research → Alexandre Dizeux The complex circuitry of the brain above was captured by a new M.R.I. scanner developed at the University of ...

Even though the human visual system has sophisticated machinery for processing color, the brain has no problem recognizing objects in black-and-white images. A new study from MIT offers a possible ...