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 role in ...

A new 15-minute tool to screen stroke survivors for visual perception problems has been launched by researchers from Durham and Oxford universities. The free screening tool could make it easier for ...

Surveys the principles of visual perception based on psychological research and everyday experience, and how they are related to the perception of art in particular.

Perceptual learning and visual cognition constitute an interdisciplinary field that investigates the brain’s remarkable capacity to refine visual processing through experience. By examining how ...

Audio cues can not only help us to recognize objects more quickly but can even alter our visual perception. That is, pair birdsong with a bird and we see a bird -- but replace that birdsong with a ...

New research published in the journal i-Perception suggests that the way striped clothing affects body shape perception ...

Deliberately slowing down your breathing rate alters how accurately you recognize emotions on the faces of people around you, depending on whether you are inhaling or exhaling. This top-down influence ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in Trieste, published in PLOS Computational Biology. The research shows that, ...