The brain's visual neurons continually develop predictions of what they will perceive and then correct erroneous assumptions as they take in additional external information, according to new research.

Our findings challenge the traditional view that early sensory areas in the brain are simply "looking" or "recording" visual input. In fact, the human brain's visual system actively reshapes how ...

To integrate our visual environment into a unified and coherent perceptual experience, the brain uses multiple processing strategies. Here, Nassi and Callaway review how the primate primary visual ...

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

Brain's visual system adapts to ignore frequent distractions, study finds. Story by Susann Sika • 4h. T he human brain can learn through experience to filter out disturbing and distracting ...

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

Two regions in the ventral visual cortex of the brain are selectively activated by images of food, ... Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar system formed. 9.

Brain's Visual System Does More Than Categorizing Objects Our brain processes various behaviorally relevant dimensions of objects, not just recognition and ... Traditionally, the dominant view in ...

To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to examine the viability of the technique in monitoring cortical activity within the ventral visual pathway,” said Dong. Further advances in fNIRS ...

By studying the visual system of an octopus, University of Oregon researchers hope to understand how its brain organization compares to that of humans and other vertebrates. Their results could ...