Our perception of an artwork–or any kind of visual information–is affected by personal filters that include everything from where we grew up to our political beliefs.

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

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 ...

Filling in the gaps in our visual perception Date: January 21, 2016 Source: Dartmouth College Summary: A new study sheds light on how the brain fills in the gaps of how we visually perceive the ...

Blinking is one of the most frequent human activities, typically occurring every two to 10 seconds or about 10 blinks per minute. It has long been understood that blinking has protective effects ...

Aging causes significant changes in visual perception, even in healthy people with no dementia or eye disease. As a result, many people struggle with simple daily activities as they age—things ...

That ruled out the possibility that so-called language laterality could explain the hemispheric differences in visual perception.

A new study finds that the conscious perception of visual location occurs in the frontal lobes of the brain, rather than in the visual system in the back of the brain. The results are significant ...

Researchers specialised in psychiatry and psychology at the University of Helsinki investigated the effects of depression on visual perception. The study confirmed that the processing of visual ...