Human vision: What we actually see, and don't see, tells us a lot about consciousness

What can you see right now? This might seem like a silly question, but what enters your consciousness is not the whole story ...
Nature

Blindsight and Visual Processing in Hemianopia

Blindsight describes the phenomenon whereby individuals with damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) retain certain visually guided behaviours despite an absence of conscious visual perception. In ...
Nature

Visual Shape Processing and Perception

Visual shape processing and perception constitute a central pillar in understanding how the human brain interprets complex visual stimuli. Research in this field has revealed a multifaceted framework ...
Science Daily

Language isn't just for communication -- it also shapes how sensory experiences are stored in the brain

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 ...
Medical Xpress

A study in stroke patients shows the brain's vision-language connection shapes object knowledge

These effects couldn't be explained by variations in patients' stroke lesions, related cognitive processes (like simply recognizing a patch of color), or problems with earlier stages of visual ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Gene Therapy Enhances Visual Processing for Inherited Retinal Disease

Gene therapy with voretigene neparvovec-rzyl partially restores geniculostriate pathway function in LCA2 patients, improving visual processing. Initial LCA2 pathology shifts visual processing from the ...
cbs12.com

Undiagnosed vision disorder causes reading problems in kids

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Most people have been looking at eye charts at the optometrist for as long as they can remember. Most kids have their first eye exam as early as 6 months old. This ...