Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

Every illusion has a backstage crew. New research shows the brain’s own “puppet strings”—special neurons that quietly tug our perception—help us see edges and shapes that don’t actually exist. When ...

A schematic view of the main findings, adapting from a brain figure in the study. Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language ...

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 ...

Early visual areas in the brain adapt their representations of the same visual stimulus depending on what task we're trying to perform. When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your ...