A single clear image can rewire the visual brain, making later recognition faster without relying on memory systems.

Sensory illusions reveal how the brain creates coherence when signals don’t align. In autism and ADHD, perception often involves sustained interpretation and context.

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

In other words, get ready to grab your binoculars, says a group of brain researchers in Canada.

When researchers ask them to imagine something familiar, they might have a concept of what it is, and words and associations ...

Whether we're staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

Psychedelics appear to reshape how the brain builds reality by dampening incoming visual signals and boosting internal memory ...

Bilal Haider receives funding from NIH and the Simons Foundation. Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped ...