New research finds that as you shift your gaze, you experience brief periods where vision is supressed and you're essentially blind.

A "smart" white cane that uses way-finding approaches from robotics and self-driving vehicles could benefit people who are blind or visually impaired.

Nature’s ultra low-power, ultra-sensitive detector arrays, also known as our retinas, should be the envy of smartphones everywhere.

Unusual visual inspection of objects by babies 9 month and older can predict later diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, a new study shows.

Currently the only treatment for Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy, a genetic eye disease, is a cornea transplant. A new gene therapy could change that.

A new study clarifies how female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes use vision to recognize humans for their next meal.

New biomarkers in the eyes could help manage diabetic retinopathy, the most common diabetic eye disease and a leading cause of blindness in US adults.

To make visual sense of the world as soon as they open their eyes, newborn mammals "dream" about it even before they're born.

The Müller-Lyer illusion, a set of lines or sticks whose lengths appear to vary due to stylized arrow marks, shows the power of gestures in gauging size.

An illusion shows "how the brain 'connects the dots' to create a subjective reality in what we see, highlighting the constructive nature of perception."