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 ...

Research reveals why some images feel pleasing while others uncomfortable. The brain prefers visuals that cost less energy.

(BPT) - What do you and your favorite professional athlete have in common? You both use your eye sight each day to live life to the fullest. Whether it’s scoring the winning goal or making that ...

Blindsight describes the phenomenon whereby individuals with damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) retain certain visually guided behaviours despite an absence of conscious visual perception. In ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study. Our ability to store ...

Georgetown neuroscientists say they have identified how people can have a "crash in visual processing" - a bottleneck of feedforward and feedback signals that can cause us not to be consciously aware ...

Researchers have confirmed that neuropeptide somatostatin can improve cognitive function in the brain. A research group of Professor Seung-Hee Lee from the Department of Biological Sciences at KAIST ...

Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

This week Gibbs looks at a language straight out of the CS labs called Processing. Designed for creating visual output, Processing is simple and easy to use yet powerful enough for serious ...