People explore the visual world through rapid eye movements called saccades. Here, the authors show that the size of each saccade determines which level of spatial detail becomes most visible after…

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Chigusa Kurumada, PhD, is an associate professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) at the University of Rochester. Kurumada first came to the University for her postdoctoral training. She has a Ph...

Scientific Reports - A bioluminescent activity dependent platform, BLADe, for converting intracellular activity to photoreceptor activation

Larger flocks of migrating songbirds orient more accurately toward their population’s migratory direction than smaller flocks.

Fine-scale exogenous attention within the foveola selectively enhances contrast gain at low-to-mid spatial frequencies while increasing response gain across a broad spatial frequency range.

IntroductionUnderstanding spoken meaning requires adaptation to prosodic variability across speakers. Prior work shows autistic adolescents display reduced p...

Visual motion perception requires balancing spatial integration, which supports discrimination of weak or noisy signals, with spatial suppression, which limits the influence of large, high-contrast...

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Using computational and theoretical models shows how adult-neurogenesis and spike-timing-dependent plasticity balance the flexibility and stability of odor representations.

Journal of Child and Family Studies - As the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, parents and children were prompted to have conversations about the pandemic including conversations about vaccination. Our...

Vision is context dependent, with neuronal responses shaped not only by local features but also by surrounding visual input. While classical studies, …

Abstract. In both humans and non-human animals, collectives can sometimes overcome individual cognitive biases or shortcomings to execute more rational beh

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Scientific Reports - Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons

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Vision is context dependent, with neuronal responses shaped not only by local features but also by surrounding visual input. While classical studies, …

The primate cerebral cortex relies on long-range connections to integrate information across spatially distributed and functionally specialized areas,…

Visual crowding—impaired object recognition caused by nearby stimuli—is well documented in peripheral vision and linked to grouping and segmentation. …

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Successful language comprehension requires listeners to rapidly adapt to linguistic variability, including accented speech. While a growing body of research suggests that long-term exposure to…

From pigeons to chimpanzees, Dora Biro shows how individual minds scale into collective intelligence—and what that reveals about us.

Adults with cortically-induced blindness (CB) affecting a quarter to a half of their visual field show greater variability in lane positioning when steering compared to those with intact vision. Becau...

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A new University of Rochester study could reshape how scientists think about perception, learning disorders, and artificial intelligence.

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Oscillatory activity is a hallmark of neural function across spatial and temporal scales, but its origins and computational roles remain only partially under...

Contrary to long-standing beliefs, motion from eye movements helps the brain perceive depth—a finding that could enhance virtual reality.

Animals vary consistently in traits such as boldness and stress reactivity, which influence fitness, movement, and social dynamics. Identifying geneti…

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IntroductionDuring the preschool years, children begin to distinguish fantasy and reality. In the United States, this is often the time parents encourage bel...