When you close your eyes and picture a familiar face, your brain does not conjure the image from scratch. According to ...

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

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

Imagination is one of the most powerful things our brains can do. We can relive past events while taking a walk, rehearse ...

Abstract: In this paper we present some implementation details of our Extremely Low Power Visual Perception (XLP-VIS-PER) algorithm on the Programmable Vision Accelerator (PVA). After explaining the ...

These terms are now often conflated. In foundational reconstruction and decoding literature their separation has been strict for good reasons: the tasks differ in difficulty, failure modes, what can ...

I first encountered the McGurk effect in a neuroscience class. My professor played a video of a person moving their lips as if saying “ga,” while the audio track played “ba.” Most students heard ...

2 Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Background There are limited treatment options to improve vision in patients with infantile nystagmus. We aimed to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robert Jacobs, University of Rochester (THE CONVERSATION) When asked the other day ...