Visual perception and scene recognition encompass the complex cognitive processes by which humans extract, interpret and respond to visual information in real-world environments. This field ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 47 (November 24, 2020), pp. 29354-29362 (9 pages) Space-related processing recruits a network of brain ...

This research study involves participating in an fMRI study in which you'll view images of different types of visual scenes. The research is being conducted at JHMI by the Visual Cognitive ...

We see details in only a small portion of the world in front of us, one point at a time, guided by and processed in regions of the brain detected in new research described by Christian Kiefer and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where the brain misinterprets what the eyes perceive, creating a false or ...