Although humans' visual perception of the world appears complete, our eyes contain a visual blind spot where the optic nerve connects to the retina. Scientists are still uncertain whether the brain ...
Neuroscientists studying the eye’s blind spot have found that brain cells in the primary visual cortex, or V1, fire even when ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The human eye contains a blind spot due to the presence of the optic disc—an area at the back of the eye where the optic nerve and retinal blood ...