Researchers at Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF), led by Prof. Vincent Bonin, have published two new studies uncovering how visual information is processed and distributed in the brain.

An electron-microscopy image of the fruit fly's anterior visual pathway — all neurons involved in processing visual information and conveying it to the navigation center in the fly brain.

Without us even noticing it, our brains are the ultimate multitaskers. The brain’s prefrontal cortex can tell us when it is ...

However, these studies focused on cortical structures that are involved in much later stages of the visual processing pathway. As opposed to this, our sensory system is constantly 'bombarded' by ...

These spatial organizing tools engage the brain’s visual categorization systems in ways that complement verbal processing, creating multimodal neural representations of conceptual relationships.

The authors describe how dysfunction of visual processing pathways can result in higher-order visual deficits, including difficulties with complex motion perception, and face and object recognition.

The human brain has two distinct pathways for processing visual information: the dorsal and ventral streams. The dorsal stream, often referred to as the “where” pathway, originates in the ...

Gene therapy partially restores visual processing in the geniculostriate pathway of patients with Leber congenital amaurosis type 2 while maintaining compensatory activity in the retinotectal pathway.

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain’s visual system: one that’s responsible for processing color and fine spatial detail, and ...