When animals move through complex visual environments, the brain cannot afford to analyze every detail one by one. Instead, ...
Every illusion has a backstage crew. New research shows the brain’s own “puppet strings”—special neurons that quietly tug our perception—help us see edges and shapes that don’t actually exist. When ...
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The McCollough effect: A trippy optical illusion that can lock into your brain for 85 days
Most optical illusions last for a few fleeting moments when you're staring at the book, screen, or whatever medium the ...
Researchers have settled a 60-year-old debate in neuroscience, proving that the visual cortex constructs complex images from ...
A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled.
Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds, behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published Nov. 25 in Neuron, finds in mice that via specific circuits, ...
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