Monkey brain scans have revealed new information about the part of the brain that processes visual information. The findings were recently presented in PNAS by neurophysiologists Qi Zhu (KU Leuven) ...

The brains of babies as young as four months old can "see" the world in the same way as adults. Scientists have found that the part of infants' brains responsible for processing visual information ...

Camille Giacometti, Postdoctoral fellow; Research Centre Jülich. Lucija Rapan, Research associate; Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. Jade Oh, PhD student; Oxford Univ. Each speaker will each have ...

David Hubel was a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist whose astonishing map of the visual cortex pulled back the curtain on one of the brain's most mysterious functions, the power of sight. Starting in ...

You might imagine the brain to be divided into specific areas responsible for processing different senses. But researchers have now shown how we can 'supercharge' our minds and break down its barriers ...

Are there areas of the cerebral cortex purely devoted to vision? Or can the "visual" cortex, under some conditions, respond to sounds? Two papers published recently address this question. First off, ...