A series of recent brain-imaging studies has begun to explain a central mystery of the psychedelic experience: why people on ...

The human visual system excels in interpreting complex visual scenes, with symmetry perception playing a pivotal role in organising sensory input into coherent representations. Visual symmetry ...

Psychedelics appear to reshape how the brain builds reality by dampening incoming visual signals and boosting internal memory ...

A single clear image can rewire the visual brain, making later recognition faster without relying on memory systems.

Every illusion has a backstage crew. New research shows the brain’s own “puppet strings”—special neurons that quietly tug our perception—help us see edges and shapes that don’t actually exist. When ...

New research shows how psychedelics alter visual processing and boost memory-linked brain circuits to generate hallucinations, revealing mechanisms with therapeutic implications.

When researchers ask them to imagine something familiar, they might have a concept of what it is, and words and associations ...

A new study in Nature Neuroscience on 'visual masking' sheds light on how we 'unsee' things and points to how conscious perception is generated in the brain. In a phenomenon known as visual masking, ...

Researchers at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology find that the hippocampus sends signals to the visual cortex to predict what we are about to see. Our brains are powerful prediction machines ...

Neuroscientists studying the eye’s blind spot have found that brain cells in the primary visual cortex, or V1, fire even when ...