Vision researchers have disproved a long-standing theory of how the human vision system processes images, using computational models and human experiments. The findings could have implications for the ...

Anne Treisman, a psychologist whose pathbreaking research into human perception and attention helped explain how the mind, not the eyes, serves as the true window to the world, died Feb. 9 at her home ...

In previous posts on The Forensic View, we have seen that eyewitness memories can be reconfigured in the direction of a witness's personal beliefs (Bartlett, 1932; Loftus, 1979; Sharps, 2022). This ...

In 1834, the German physiologist Ernst Weber (pictured above) carried out a series of experiments to determine the limits of sensory perception. He gave a blindfolded man a mass to hold and gradually ...