When we listen to a symphony, a jazz performance, or a pop song, we naturally tend to assume that our ears are the primary ...

Although music is considered a purely auditory experience, visual cues can unconsciously influence performance judgements—a phenomenon known as the sight-over-sound effect. To explore how one’s ...

Can one truly understand what “flower” means without smelling a rose, touching a daisy or walking through a field of ...

New research reveals how early-life blurry, low-color vision may help shape the brain’s visual pathways into specialized systems.

How do you develop an AI system that perfectly mimics the way humans speak? Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have ...

Each year, more than 30 million people globally receive surgery to correct cataracts. As many people age, the crystalline ...

The primary visual cortex (V1) is probably the best characterized area of primate cortex, but whether this region contributes directly to conscious visual experience is controversial.

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for ...

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

If there’s anything the Trump administration has gotten unequivocally right (besides inadvertently helping Mark Carney become prime minister of Canada), it’s this: Modern science, for all its ...