A 47-year-old Caucasian woman with no significant medical or ocular history was referred to the Lahey Eye Clinic with complaints of flashes of light in the periphery of her right eye. Three weeks ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...

In our lifetimes, we encounter hundreds of thousands of faces. Each person's unique exposure to faces largely determines their "face space"—a model of how we encode, perceive, and remember the faces ...

Derived from the Greek word “palin” for “again” and “opsia” for “seeing,” palinopsia is a rare visual system processing distortion. People with this distortion continue to see the image of an object ...

It sounds like the stuff of horror films — but for people who are afflicted with a rare disorder, it’s a terrifying reality. A condition called prosopometamorphopsia (PMO) causes facial features to ...

That blurry road sign you blamed on fog? The occasional floaters that drift across your field of vision? Those random flashes of light you see sometimes? Your eyes might be trying to tell you ...