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Thanks to the work of NEI scientists and grantees, we’re constantly learning new information about the causes and treatment of vision disorders. Get the latest updates about their work — along with other news about NEI.

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Reward improves visual perceptual learning — but only after people sleep

A new study from Brown researchers finds that rewards improve performance on a visual perceptual task only if participants sleep after training.
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How Do Fruit Flies See in Color?

Study from Columbia University uncovers human-like brain circuit at work. Their findings lay the groundwork for mapping mechanisms of color vision.
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Study probing visual memory, amblyopia unveils many-layered mystery

Researchers at the Picower Institute at MIT have discovered cellular mechanisms behind amblyopia and visual memory.
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Deep neural networks uncover what the brain likes to see

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Tübingen in Germany have developed a novel computational approach to finding stimuli that neurons in the brain ‘like.’
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Rosy Health and Sickly Green: Color Associations Play Robust Role in Reading Faces

Anyone who has ever sensed that a person is sick simply by looking at their face has experienced the wealth of information conveyed by face color.
fMRI brain scan shows activity in two different brains

Children’s Brains Reorganize After Epilepsy Surgery to Retain Visual Perception

Children can keep full visual perception – the ability to process and understand visual information – after brain surgery for severe epilepsy, according to a study funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health.
Grantee News

Putting Vision Models to the Test

MIT neuroscientists have performed the most rigorous testing yet of computational models that mimic the brain’s visual cortex.
Grantee News

Brains of Blind People Adapt to Sharpen Sense of Hearing, Study Shows

Research has shown that people who are born blind or become blind early in life often have a more nuanced sense of hearing, especially when it comes to musical abilities and tracking moving objects in space (imagine crossing a busy road using sound alone)
Grantee News

Arbitrary Categories Improve visual Learning Transfer, Study Finds

Many brain training games claim to improve mental performance, but a growing body of cognitive research shows that while participants get better on a game’s specific tasks, the benefits do not transfer to real-life skills...
Grantee News

New Study Reshapes Understanding of How the Brain Recovers from Injury

New research, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, sheds light on how the damage in the brain caused by a stroke can lead to permanent vision impairment for approximately 265,000 Americans each year.

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