Shake your head and tell what do you see hidden in this optical illusion image. There is an animal obscured by these moving ...

Discover why hills look steeper than they are and how eye height and gaze angle shape everyday visual perception. (CREDIT: Getty Images) People rarely notice how their eyes shape their sense of the ...

In her new book “Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life,” Amy E. Herman invites readers to practice their observational and critical-thinking skills by studying works of art.

A new study sheds light on how the brain fills in the gaps of how we visually perceive the world around us. A Dartmouth College study sheds light on how the brain fills in the gaps of how we visually ...

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 ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in ...

For a translator to turn one language (say, English) into another (say, Greek), she has to be able to understand both languages and what common meanings they point to, because English is not very ...

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 for ...

According to the diametric model of the mind and of mental illness, genius is the rare, harmonious combination of both autistic and psychotic cognition in some unusual and/or original way. David ...