The human eye can see with exceptional detail, allowing people to read fine print, recognize faces across the room, and take ...

A new UAB study published in Nature Communications reveals how the eye creates sharp vision, showing that individual ...

When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For decades, scientists have hypothesized that one of these pathways, the ventral ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. With the help of ...

Later, with improved vision, cells may tune to finer details and richer color, consistent with the other pathway, known as the parvocellular system. To test their hypothesis, the researchers trained ...