People rarely notice how their eyes shape their sense of the world, yet new research shows just how powerful this effect can ...

People who are blind or visually impaired fall within a wide range of visual acuities. Here is some insight into their experience.

His research is on the connection between language and visual perception, or, in other words, between what we say and what we see. Understanding these two activities — seeing and speaking — may at ...

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 ...

A new UCLA study challenges long-standing research claims that people of East Asian and European origins perform differently on a well-known visual perception test. The rod-and-frame task asks viewers ...

Disturbances in visual perception occur in a range of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases, including autism, schizophrenia and stroke. This study, the first to map all thalamic ...

Therefore, the findings of Williams and colleagues highlight the importance of multisensory processes in perception, demonstrating that sounds can indeed alter how we recognize visual objects.

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 ...

Posterior cortical atrophy, an early symptom of Alzheimer's, results in visual perception impairment that often precedes memory loss by several years.