The animate-inanimate category distinction is one of the general organizing principles in the primate high-level visual cortex. Much less is known about the visual cortical representations of animacy ...

The striate cortex is the part of the visual cortex that is involved in processing visual information. The striate cortex is the first cortical visual area that receives input from the lateral ...

IQ and observation skills are closely linked. Studies show that people who excel in visual puzzles tend to have higher ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Georgia Tech has discovered how lateral inhibition helps our brains process visual ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have collaborated with several universities to develop a new ...

Think you have sharp eyes? Test your IQ with this optical illusion challenge! Find the hidden word ‘BINGO’ in just 5 seconds and prove your brainpower!

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 ...

This important study examined orientation representations along the visual hierarchy during perception and working memory. The authors provide results suggesting that during working memory there is a ...

Their paper, published in Nature Neuroscience, unveils patterns of cortical activity occurring in the ferret visual cortex before and after newly born pups first open their eyes. "The fundamental ...

When Dylan Sullivan picks up her pencil, every point, every line and every shape is made with mathematical precision.