Scientists have long known that the hippocampus is essential for forming new memories. It helps record where and when things ...

People with MS experience significant changes in cognition more than a year before significant physical decline is evident, a ...

New research shows that in natural vision, visual memory of images is affected by the size of the image on the retina. The findings can have many implications, including on the use of different types ...

Scientists have designed a new cognitive test that diagnoses patients more accurately with Alzheimer's. The digital test ...

Tel Aviv University researchers developed a new learning method for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that can potentially improve visual perception and published their work in Current ...

The brain comes prepared to perceive the world. When babies are born, the optic nerve (which carries signals from the light-sensitive retina at the back of the eye) connects to a nucleus in the ...

Timothy Vickery, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. The cognitive neuroscientist is primarily interested in visual ...