Reading difficulties, like dyslexia, are common and often affect achievement and outcomes during school and later in life. A ...

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 ...

Patients with schizophrenia have difficulties in social cognitive domains including emotion recognition and mentalization, and in sensorimotor processing and learning. The relationship between social ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study. Our ability to store ...

Neuroscientists want to understand how individual neurons encode information that allows us to distinguish objects, like telling a leaf apart from a rock. But they have struggled to build ...

Learning to read is not easy, but it is made more difficult for a child who cannot see the words and letters on the page correctly. It may not be a problem with their eyes, though. Even children with ...

Dementia strikes many people as they age, and there’s currently not much we can do about it. It would be nice to think that there could be a fix to stave it off, like a computer game or something that ...

A Yale-led study uncovered unexpected communication between retinal visual pathways that were thought to operate separately.

Higher visual functions, particularly object and face recognition, are crucial for interacting with and making sense of the environment. A hallmark of primate vision is our ability to rapidly and ...

Bumblebees see the world differently under stress, processing visual information more sharply and making quicker decisions, ...