How does the brain create mental images? A new study reveals that visual imagination and perception share a common neural code.

A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled.

An important function of our vision is to segregate relevant figures from the irrelevant background. When we look at a visual stimulus, it drives a cascade of neural activity from low-level to higher ...

A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled.

Scientists have found our visual perception dips as our feet hit the ground. Further understanding this could help develop early diagnostics for neuromuscular or psychiatric illness; understand ...

A new study reveals the brain doesn’t rely on a single clock but builds our sense of time through multiple stages across ...

An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of the image below, the sensory input is four Pac Man–like black figures. But ...

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, ...

Whether we're staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

When animals move through complex visual environments, the brain cannot afford to analyze every detail one by one. Instead, ...