Perceptual learning and visual cognition constitute an interdisciplinary field that investigates the brain’s remarkable capacity to refine visual processing through experience. By examining how ...

MIT scientists explore how the brain seamlessly processes visual information from both eyes without a perceptible seam, ...

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

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

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

Traditionally, perception and cognition have been considered distinct domains of psychological science. Perception was understood to be the raw data collector—our sensory touchpoint with the external ...

A new study published in the Journal of Cognition provides evidence that what we know influences what we hear. Researchers found that when people listened to pairs of words and nonsense words spoken ...

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

Thanks to Shakespeare, most people are familiar with the eyes being attributed as “the windows to your soul.” It turns out that your eyes are also windows into some of your cognitive processes and ...

Children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder may see the world in subtly different ways compared to their peers, according to a new study published in the Journal of Attention ...