Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

In a nutshell Radiologists and radiographers, who spend their careers examining medical images, are significantly less susceptible to common visual illusions than non-experts. This challenges the long ...

I’ve noticed something fascinating in my years of food photography and recipe development – colors can make or break how appetizing a dish appears. Your brain processes visual information about food ...

This work is the first time that visual perception has been finely and continuously sampled during walking. Without virtual reality headsets and motion tracking it would not be possible.

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.

About the Author Nicolas Davidenko, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he teaches courses on perception, illusions, and face recognition.

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.