The angle of your gaze influences more than just visual impressions—it impacts decisions, behaviors, and even safety. For Shaffer and his team, including co-author Montse Juarez, the work is just the ...

How does the brain create mental images? A new study reveals that visual imagination and perception share a common neural code.

A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled.

The field of visual perception and material recognition examines how the human visual system deciphers the physical properties of objects—from their texture and gloss to subtle variations in surface ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in Trieste, published in PLOS Computational Biology. The research shows that, ...

How people evaluate odors does not depend entirely on the odorant itself—context influences perception. A research team from the Leibniz Research Center for Working Environment and Human Factors ...

How optical illusions work has been long-debated among scientists and philosophers, who wonder whether these illusions stem from neural processing in the eye or involve higher-level cognitive ...

To what extent has Earth’s gravity shaped our cognitive and brain functions? Utilizing spaceflight and a ground-based analog, a new study shows that the human brain relies on bodily gravitational ...

Past research has suggested that people's cultural differences may result in differences in basic visual perception. New research found no evidence that these differences play a significant role in ...

Odors seem to impact our visual perception of colors, adjusting our perception of a ‘neutral’ color. A recent study first authored by Ryann Ward of Liverpool John Moores University (UK), has revealed ...

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