A patient with complete blindness caused by irreversible optic nerve damage partially recovered natural vision after ...

Over the following months, the patient followed a daily visual training routine of at least 30 minutes, including standardized exercises of increasing complexity to assess light perception, spatial ...

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 ...

People with aphantasia—individuals who report experiencing no visual imagery at all—also showed reduced activation of the brain's visual cortex in response to sounds, according to a new study. The ...

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, ...

Newborns track faces from birth. But what happens when screens replace human eyes? The answer may shape how the next generation reads emotions and connects with others.

I llusions are everywhere. For example, the moon appears larger when it rests on the horizon than when it is hanging in the sky. Other visual tricks occur when a person perceives an object in an image ...