We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

Visual perception is not a mere snapshot of the external world but a dynamic process in which current percepts are systematically influenced by past sensory experiences. This phenomenon, known as ...

New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists test the human mind. The work by Johns Hopkins University ...

In the fast-paced world of digital distractions, a new kind of viral phenomenon has taken over our social feeds: the high-stakes visual perception challenge. As a long-time observer of how our brains ...

The human visual system excels in interpreting complex visual scenes, with symmetry perception playing a pivotal role in organising sensory input into coherent representations. Visual symmetry ...

The results revealed that the speed of alpha brain waves in the parietal cortex plays a key role. This region of the brain ...

Bilal Haider receives funding from NIH and the Simons Foundation. Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped ...

Lyte will serve as the "visual brain" for robotics, acting as both the eyes and visual cortex, with a focus on sensing and perception technology.

Optical illusions are like mini brain tests that are designed to challenge your perception, observation, and visual ...

Optical illusions thrive online because they play tricks on human perception. The brain often relies on familiar patterns and ...

What we call “pretty” is far less fixed than it feels. Research shows that attraction is shaped by biology, psychology, ...