A new study led by biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals how the primary visual cortex establishes ...

Do you feel like your concentration wanes in the evening, or that your head feels heavy even though you feel like you've been ...

A new computational model shows how cortical feedback slashes neural chaos by 93%, explaining how our vision stays stable despite fluctuating brain activity.

Recent studies have found that brain regions previously thought to only process a specific type of sensory stimuli, such as the visual cortex, can also be affected by other sensory stimuli. This might ...

As in larger brains, mouse visual cortex neurons with the same function cluster in columns. For over 50 years, it has been known that in the cerebral cortex of many mammals, neurons with the same ...

Sometimes the brain receives visual information that may contradict each other: for example, a person sees a face-like shape ...

The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology demonstrates that a much older structure, the superior colliculus, contains the ...

Our eyes do not always tell us exactly where things are—and that may be a feature of how biological vision works, rather than ...

Why do some people with depression respond to medication while others don't? A small study points to the brain's outer layer, ...

We tend to think of a fetus's brain as a construction site guided by a blueprint imprinted in the genes. But even before ...