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 ...

An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of the image below, the sensory input is four Pac Man–like black figures. But ...

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, ...

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 ...

Dr Maria Santacà describes how not only how fish and birds perceive their worlds, but also how ecological pressures shape the ...

The study of visual illusions in animals provides a compelling window into both the evolutionary continuity and diversity of perceptual processes. Research indicates that many species, from domestic ...

New release continues Chinese start-up’s efforts to raise AI models’ efficiency, while driving down the costs of building and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...