Discover why hills look steeper than they are and how eye height and gaze angle shape everyday visual perception. (CREDIT: Getty Images) People rarely notice how their eyes shape their sense of the ...

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 ...

A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience suggests that the human brain responds to colors in a way that is ...

Our survival depends upon our ability to observe the world around us accurately and reliably. Disturbances in visual perception occur in a range of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases, ...

Researchers have developed AI-generated “visual anagrams” — images that transform into entirely new objects when rotated — to explore how the brain processes perception.

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 ...

Most intriguingly, psychologists in the 1960s had apparently discovered something remarkable about the illusion: only European and American urbanites fell for the trick. The illusion worked less well, ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our perception of thinking about an image differs from objective reality. This image is seen as a motion or spiral optical illusion (specifically a ...

“It’s possible that the mice weren’t seeing them,” admits Shin, “because the technique has involved a relatively small number ...

New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are ...