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

Learning to read is not easy, but it is made more difficult for a child who cannot see the words and letters on the page correctly. It may not be a problem with their eyes, though. Even children with ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

A child reaches for a toy, hesitates, then turns away — not because their eyes cannot see it, but because their brain cannot ...

Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs. The ball and the water behave very differently, and it turns out that your brain has ...