While the students who had any form of visual aid always did better than students in the control group, students with diagrams, on average, outperformed students with only outlines.

UC Santa Barbara neuroscientists have reconstructed the entire anterior visual pathway of a fruit fly, a complex series of neural connections between the insect’s eyes and the navigation center of its ...

UC Santa Barbara neuroscientists have reconstructed the entire anterior visual pathway of a fruit fly, a complex series of connections between the insect's eyes and the navigation center of its brain.

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for processing color and fine spatial detail, and another that's involved ...

Using brain scans and a novel “switch-rivalry” technique, he and his co-authors discovered that the primary visual cortex, which is the first stage of cortical visual processing, does not accurately ...

A new study finds parts of the brain's visual cortex are specialized to analyze either "things" like solid objects or "stuff," flowing materials like water or sand.

The researchers also discovered that this contagious itch signaling didn’t appear to pass through the usual visual pathway seen in primates and rodents, which involves the visual cortex.