McGill University researchers have developed a light-detecting nanoscale structure that mimics how a neuron processes information. The neuron-like behavior emerges from the materials themselves, ...

This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. This story also starts a series exploring the complexities of human anatomy and physiology. Each story in this ...

A new Yale School of Medicine (YSM) study has uncovered surprising new details about how our eyes process what we see. When we look at something, our visual system breaks down different aspects of the ...

The environment experienced by young zebrafish influences both the shape and electrical activity of the neurons in the eye, ...

A Yale-led study uncovered unexpected communication between retinal visual pathways that were thought to operate separately.

The human brain builds mental representations of the world based on the signals and information detected via the human senses. While we perceive simultaneously occurring sensory stimuli as being ...

The more precisely we want to examine the human retina, the more clearly one of the fundamental limits of physics becomes apparent. In cellular-resolution eye imaging, the same tradeoff has applied ...

Neurons in the bird eye’s inner retina lack a blood supply. Finding how these neurons function without oxygen reveals a role for an enigmatic eye structure. Read the paper: Oxygen-free metabolism in ...