In 1950, two researchers noticed something that didn't quite add up. Hector Chevigny, a writer who had lost his sight in ...

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Does the deaf brain "see" with its ears? New research shows the auditory cortex maps visual space through selective ...

And that is a problem, because smell is extremely important not only for getting information about our surroundings, but also ...

A brain that develops in the deprivation of one sense reorganizes itself in surprising ways, revealing remarkable ...

This important cross-species study tests whether the corpus callosum contains parallel, segregated pathways for ipsilateral and contralateral visual-field information, rather than mixed inputs from ...

Researchers have developed a soft artificial retina that helped blind mice respond to near-infrared light, a type of light ...

Understanding how receptors arrange themselves could improve therapies for patients who have a diminished or entirely lost ...

The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies ...

Think you can trust your eyes? Think again. What feels undeniable at first glance is sometimes a surprise, an illusion, or an ...