During her training in anthropology, Dorsa Amir, now at Duke University, became fascinated with the Müller-Lyer illusion.

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

The most successful visual implementations balance attention-grabbing effects with clarity that allows players to understand game states without confusion or cognitive overload.

My recent article in Art & Perception uses works of art to demonstrate that visual perception – and representations of the visual world – involve mind-stretching paradoxes and logical problems.

Screen time can change visual perception -- and that's not necessarily bad Date: September 30, 2020 Source: Binghamton University Summary: The coronavirus pandemic has shifted many of our ...

Imaging data suggest that conscious perception has little to do with the primary visual cortex -- the region where visual information enters the brain. From a purely intuitive point of view, it is ...

Although recent research indicates that an increased sensitivity to visual appearances develops around 4 or 5 years of age, evidence from perceptual studies suggests that certain types of appearances, ...

How that visual “clutter” affects visual processing in the brain, however, is not well understood. In a new study published Oct. 22 in the journal Neuron, Yale researchers show that this clutter ...

In this paper, we consider theories about processes of visual perception and perception-based knowledge representation (VPR) in order to explain difficulties encountered in figurai processing in ...

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 ...