MIT researchers discovered that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t just send generic control signals—it tailors its messages to ...

Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds, behavior and internal states shape vision.

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed increasingly sophisticated sensors and machine learning algorithms that allow computer systems to process and interpret images and videos.

The print on a page may be too fine to read, but that doesn't mean your brain can't discern the pattern of lines. New research by scientists at the University of Minnesota and the University of ...

If you’ve ever noticed that you notice more as you get older, brain science may be on your side. There’s a catch, though: Lots of that visual information isn’t important, and it might be replacing ...

Todd Kahan, a Bates psychology professor who studies how people process visual information, has received a prestigious award that will allow him to explore how cultural differences affect those ...

When we see the dynamic world in which we move, or even watch a movie in the cinema, information from each point in our eye’s field of view has different properties that our brain has to process ...