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

How does the brain see the "big picture"? A new study reveals that the primary visual cortex (V1) calculates statistical ...

Cognitive psychologists of the Higher School of Economics have experimentally demonstrated that people are capable of estimating the mean size of visible objects and their approximate number ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 108, No. 31 (August 2, 2011), pp. 12909-12914 (6 pages) The estimation of visual motion has long been studied as a ...

Statisticians are one of the fastest growing jobs in the country–and for good reason. “As data becomes more and more a part of people’s lives, statistics is becoming more a part of people’s lives,” ...