How does the brain create mental images? A new study reveals that visual imagination and perception share a common neural code.

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Most people have been looking at eye charts at the optometrist for as long as they can remember. Most kids have their first eye exam as early as 6 months old. This ...

The European Stroke Organization issued its first recommendations on the management of visual and visual perceptual disorders after stroke, calling for systematic early screening and wider ...

A new screening tool for visual perception difficulties after stroke that takes just 15 minutes to complete could help improve diagnosis of visual perception problems common in stroke survivors, new ...

The ability to recognize faces is a complex neurocognitive skill with important social implications. The disorder, which, according to some estimates, affects more than 2 percent of the population, ...

Why can images of things we have seen seem so real when we later recall them from memory? A new study led by Cedars-Sinai ...

A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled.

A popular theory in neuroscience called predictive coding proposes that the brain produces all the time expectations that are compared with incoming information. Errors arising from differences ...

Researchers specialised in psychiatry and psychology at the University of Helsinki investigated the effects of depression on visual perception. The study confirmed that the processing of visual ...