The brain has an astonishing capacity to detect patterns in the world. So much so, it will often create patterns where none exist. Pareidolia is the tendency to see familiar shapes in random objects.

Humans can readily perceive and recognize the movements of a living creature, based solely on a few point-lights tracking the motion of the major joints. Such exquisite sensitivity to biological ...

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 ...

The motion aftereffect, sometimes referred to as the "waterfall illusion," is one of the oldest visual illusions ever discovered, dating as far back as Aristotle. When we are exposed to a continuously ...