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 ...

The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in ...

Psychologists have found that our visual perception can be contaminated by memories of what we have recently seen, impairing our ability to properly understand and act on what we are currently seeing.

Blindness profoundly affects people's lives. Around the world, several laboratories, including the Biomedical ...

People rarely notice how their eyes shape their sense of the world, yet new research shows just how powerful this effect can be. A study from Ohio researchers reveals that even small changes in the ...

As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But while we can appreciate that others might hold different opinions of objects we see, not many people know that factors beyond our ...