New research shows how psychedelics alter visual processing and boost memory-linked brain circuits to generate hallucinations, revealing mechanisms with therapeutic implications.

Scientists have discovered that turtles possess advanced visual processing abilities once thought to be unique to mammals.

Optical illusion puzzles test your brain's ability to recognise patterns quickly and efficiently. Solving visual illusions to find the hidden numbers can reveal your visual acuity, attention to detail ...

Picture puzzles are not just fun games. These visual puzzles are mini IQ tests in disguise. These are designed to test your ...

Psychedelics can quiet the brain’s visual input system, pushing it to replace missing details with vivid fragments from ...

A single clear image can rewire the visual brain, making later recognition faster without relying on memory systems.

Although humans' visual perception of the world appears complete, our eyes contain a visual blind spot where the optic nerve ...

In A Nutshell Researchers used a light-based brain imaging technique in mice to watch, in real time, what happens in the ...

Robots and self-driving cars could soon benefit from a new kind of brain-inspired hardware that can allegedly detect movement and react faster than a human. A new study published in the journal Nature ...

In a safety and feasibility trial of a cortical visual prosthesis, researchers observed progressive recovery of natural vision in a patient with complete blindness caused by irreversible optic nerve ...

The pattern of reaching biases is stable across contexts and can be attributed to a misalignment between eye-centric and body-centric representations of position.

The human eye contains a blind spot at the back of the eye where the optic nerve and retinal blood enter and exit, but our ...