Neuroscientists have recorded neural activity from the visual system of an octopus for the first time. An octopus devotes about 70% of its brain to vision. But until recently, scientists have only had ...

The human brain builds mental representations of the world based on the signals and information detected via the human senses. While we perceive simultaneously occurring sensory stimuli as being ...

"Nobody has actually recorded from the central visual system of a cephalopod before," Niell said. Octopuses and other cephalopods aren't typically used as a model for understanding vision, but Niell's ...

Imagine driving a vehicle on a day when there is a lot of traffic. In a complex task like this one, we need to scan the environment constantly and look at different parts of the scene to monitor ...