Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what ...

The essential role of the primary visual cortex in visual processing has been extensively studied over the last century or more. Injuries to the visual cortex in adult humans can produce blindness ...

The visual cortex, a ... function, and behavioral link of visual areas beyond the well-studied V1. Her investigation began in V1's closely related neighbor, V2, ...

Previous studies which have investigated the correlation between visual function and structure on MRI have only correlated visual function with the possible involvement of occipital cortex or optic ...

Objective: Multiple studies have explored the use of visual cortex non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) to enhance visual function. These studies vary in sample size, outcome measures, and ...

Or can the "visual" cortex, under some conditions, respond to sounds? Two papers published recently address this question. First off, Micah Murray and colleagues of Switzerland discuss The ...

It could someday be possible to reroute functions from a damaged area to a new spot in the brain. "If we can make the visual cortex do math," Bedny said, ...

The primary visual cortex, called Brodmann area 17 or V1, receives information from the retina. It then interprets and transmits information related to space, location, motion, and color of ...

To test whether the visual cortex could take on more complex language tasks, the researchers scanned the brains of 22 sighted people and 10 people who were blind from birth or an early age while ...

Otherwise, if the visual system were deprived of input all night long, the visual cortex's function might degrade. We know that the visual cortex, in the brain's occipital lobe, can start to respond ...

It conforms to when the visual cortex needs to start defending its territory, Eagleman argues. Scans of dreaming people show most of the brain activity associated with REM is within the visual cortex.