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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 15-minute tool to screen stroke survivors for visual perception problems has been launched by researchers from Durham and Oxford universities. The free screening tool could make it easier for ...

Patients with infantile nystagmus had significant gains in near and distance visual acuity as well as stereopsis following regular sessions of vision training with RevitalVision software, according to ...

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 ...

Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

If you believe you possess eyes as sharp as a hunter and a mind as fast as a supercomputer, take this optical illusion ...

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 ...