Sharp vision is essential for artists, write Margaret S. Livingstone, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Bevil R. Conway, a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. Yet a ...

You probably think balance comes from your legs, core, or inner ear, but your eyes might be the most important factor in staying upright and stable. Vision provides up to 80% of the sensory ...

Hannah Hampton was not supposed to make it as a professional athlete. The doctors told her it would not be possible. That professional sport was not meant for someone like her. In Hampton’s case, ...

Motion perception, particularly in three dimensions, is a fundamental aspect of human visual processing that enables the interpretation of dynamic environments. The brain combines multiple sensory ...

A photograph of the artificial compound eye prototype developed at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science by associate professor Kyusang Lee. Self-driving cars ...

Our perception of how large or small things are in the world is systematically influenced for how we perceive distance or depth. This is most famously shown by the Ponzo Illusion (discovered by Mario ...

This is an updated version of an article published on July 15. Hannah Hampton was not supposed to make it as a professional athlete. The doctors told her it would not be possible. That professional ...