The Role of Visual Perception In a new paper published this month in Frontiers in Psychology , my colleagues and I examined whether visual stimuli could modulate the misophonic response.

Mind-Craft: Exploring the Effect of Digital Visual Experience on Changes to Orientation Sensitivity in Visual Contour Perception. Perception , 2020; 030100662095098 DOI: 10.1177/0301006620950989 ...

According to Firestone, people also can't help recognizing an object being mimed, even when there is no physical object present—another example of how the brain fills in the gaps in our perception.

Psychology research suggests that the human body, particularly the muscles on our face, plays a key part in the processing of others' emotions. For instance, past findings suggest that when we see ...