Close your eyes and picture a coffee cup. Suddenly, the dark fills with shape, color, and texture. It’s a picture as vivid as ...

A small team of brain researchers at South China Normal University, working with a colleague from the University of New South Wales, has found that the visual processing parts of the brain light up in ...

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

Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs. The ball and the water behave very differently, and it turns out that your brain has ...

Getting older comes with its fair share of worries, and for many people, keeping their mind sharp sits near the top of the ...

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 ...

Critical flicker fusion (CFF), a measure of visual processing speed, predicts executive function in younger and older adults and may be helpful in predicting decline in executive function, say ...

Daniel Kish lost both eyes to retinal cancer before he was two years old. By the time he was a teenager, he was mountain ...