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 ...

Weirder than weird. Stranger than strange. You win if these pics don't make you go 'hmmm' and ask, 'What the heck?!' ...

Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new Yale study finds evidence that they might. When completing a visual perception task, in which participants had to ...

A new screening tool for visual perception difficulties after stroke that takes just 15 minutes to complete could help improve diagnosis of visual perception problems common in stroke survivors, new ...

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 ...

Timothy Vickery, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. The cognitive neuroscientist is primarily interested in visual ...

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 ...

Scientists have found our visual perception dips as our feet hit the ground. Further understanding this could help develop early diagnostics for neuromuscular or psychiatric illness; understand ...

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 ...

Images generated by photographic computer software are the first to depict accurate images of facial distortions experienced by patients with prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), a rare visual disorder that ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where the brain misinterprets what the eyes perceive, creating a false or misleading impression of reality. This happens because the brain processes visual ...

Jessica Taubert receives funding from The Australian Research Council. When you look at clouds, tree bark, or the front of a car, do you sometimes see a face staring back at you? That’s “face ...