The mystery of how human eyes compute the direction of moving light has been made clearer. Using advanced electrical recording techniques, researchers discovered how nerve cells in the eye's retina ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. This story also starts a series ...

For the first time, neuroscientists from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (currently in the process of being established) have revealed the ...

How are the images cast on the retina reassembled in the brain? Researchers have found that processing of visual stimuli occurs at the earliest waystation on the way to the visual cortex -- but not ...

Over the last thirty years, a period that spans the career of Robert Rodieck, our knowledge of the visual system has undergone exponential growth. In the early days one could read and absorb almost ...

Some experts will tell you that the human eye can see between 30 and 60 frames per second. Some maintain that the human eye may be able to see much more than that although more research is needed.