Perceptual learning and visual cognition constitute an interdisciplinary field that investigates the brain’s remarkable capacity to refine visual processing through experience. By examining how ...

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People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

A viral optical illusion featuring overlapping leaves hides the number “47,” which most people miss at first glance. The ...

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

New research shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t simply broadcast generic commands to sensory regions—it sends finely tailored signals that shape how the brain processes vision depending on ...

Norman Doidge, citing a study by Merzenich and colleagues, found that the brain allocates neurological resources to its most ...

A closed-loop cortical implant generates functional percepts of shape, motion, and letters in two individuals with acquired ...

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