Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Study participants who wore the head-mounted low vision device, eSight, experienced immediate improvements in ...

Not necessarily. A new study shows that visual ability is actually its own kind of intelligence that’s entirely unrelated to IQ, and that people vary widely in how visually intelligent they are. That ...

The first study of individual variation in visual ability has shown that there is a broad range of differences in people's capability for recognizing and remembering novel objects and has determined ...

Babies are generally poorer at seeing and recognizing objects than adults because of their immature visual abilities. However, a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

In geographic atrophy, a late form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), reading ability is closely related to the altered retinal structure. Reading speed makes everyday functional impairment ...

Frogs display a remarkable diversity of species as a whole, but does the same hold true for their visual abilities? A new study led by York University's Faculty of Science has sought to answer this ...

In geographic atrophy, a late form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), reading ability is closely related to the altered retinal structure. This has been demonstrated by researchers from the ...

S. R. D., a 34-year-old woman from the Indian state of Gujarat, was born with cataracts in both eyes (Ostrovsky et al., 2006). She perceived only light until she was 12 years old, when a surgeon ...

Attention, the ability to focus on a part of the sensory information available to us, involves filtering and selecting specific sensory input from the environment. For example, we can focus our gaze ...