A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled.
Researchers have settled a 60-year-old debate in neuroscience, proving that the visual cortex constructs complex images from ...
How does the brain see the "big picture"? A new study reveals that the primary visual cortex (V1) calculates statistical ...
A tennis return can look almost automatic. The ball comes off the racket, crosses the court in a blur, and somehow a player ...
A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled.
When animals move through complex visual environments, the brain cannot afford to analyze every detail one by one. Instead, ...
Every illusion has a backstage crew. New research shows the brain’s own “puppet strings”—special neurons that quietly tug our perception—help us see edges and shapes that don’t actually exist. When ...
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 ...
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 ...
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