Humans develop sharp vision during early fetal development thanks to an interplay between a vitamin A derivative and thyroid hormones in the retina, Johns Hopkins University scientists have found. The ...

Although humans' visual perception of the world appears complete, our eyes contain a visual blind spot where the optic nerve ...

New research shows how psychedelics alter visual processing and boost memory-linked brain circuits to generate hallucinations, revealing mechanisms with therapeutic implications.

Visual experience triggers the formation of a web of neural connections in different brain areas in order to make sense of the world—and in particular, of feedback connections, which send information ...

Glaucoma is one of those diseases that barely gets talked about, even though it’s a major cause of irreversible blindness.

Abstract: Capturing dense visual perception in cluttered environments using depth sensors is crucial for downstream robotics tasks. However, occlusions between objects and unreliable depth data make ...