Two brain structures are crucial to the processing of visual stimuli: the visual cortex in the primary cerebral cortex and the superior colliculus, a structure in the midbrain.

Neuroscientists have revealed the precise connections between sensory neurons inside the retina and the superior colliculus, a structure in the midbrain. Neuropixels probes are a relatively recent ...

Visual systems of both humans and animals can detect life motion from the environment at the earliest stage of visual ...

Interestingly, the stimuli don't reach the brain at random locations: every position on the retina is transmitted to a very specific location in the tectum of the midbrain, the processing hub for ...

The black arrow shows cloudy tectum (the uppermost part of the midbrain) in the mutant embryo, which represents cell death. Scale bar = 100 μm.