Research reveals the presence of a blueprint for the complex visual system already present at birth. The observations shed light on a long-standing mystery about how and when certain cardinal features ...

Preterm infants are at higher risk for visual and other neurodevelopmental problems compared with infants born full-term (1–7). Those who are very low birth weight (VLBW ≤ 1500) are at particularly ...

For decades, researchers have known that the primate brain is organized into “maps” for each of the different senses: one of the body for touch, one of the visual world for sight, one of tones for ...

All the different senses in our body: one of the body for touch, one of the visual world for sight, one of tones for hearing are organized into maps in the brain. In adults, these maps are divided ...

People who have been blind from birth make use of the visual parts of their brain to refine their sensation of sound and touch, according to an international team of researchers. People who have been ...