NEI Research News

The brain works in fundamentally different ways when remembering what we have seen compared to seeing something for the first time, a team of scientists has found.

University of California, Irvine team demonstrates the adult brain has the potential to partially recover from inherited blindness.

Scientists have decoded visual images from a dog’s brain, offering a first look at how the canine mind reconstructs what it sees.

Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions report a new sensor that allows neuroscientists to image brain activity without missing signals, for an extended time and deeper in the brain than previously possible.

New research from the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience demonstrates that inhibitory and excitatory neuronal circuits of the visual system develop through different processes, even if the organization of the mature circuit is similar.

In a new research study from the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, scientists have now discovered the neuronal changes that occur during learning to improve discrimination of closely related visual images.

The eye’s light-sensing retina taps different circuits depending on whether it is generating image-forming vision or carrying out a non-vision function such as regulating pupil size or sleep/wake cycles, according to a new mouse study.

A new study from Brown University demonstrated that some regions of the cerebral cortex involved in cognitive processing and mood show sensitivity for light intensity.

New findings about how the brain interprets sensory information may have applications for treating brain disorders and designing artificial intelligence.

The size of our primary visual cortex and the amount of brain tissue we have dedicated to processing visual information can predict how well we can see, a new study shows.