Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

In the fast-paced world of digital distractions, a new kind of viral phenomenon has taken over our social feeds: the high-stakes visual perception challenge. As a long-time observer of how our brains ...

We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an ...

The human visual system excels in interpreting complex visual scenes, with symmetry perception playing a pivotal role in organising sensory input into coherent representations. Visual symmetry ...

New research shows how rhythmic brain waves help us distinguish between our own body and the external world, offering ...

Our visual perception of the world is often thought of as relatively stable. However, like all of our cognitive functions, visual processing is shaped by our experiences. During both development and ...

The results revealed that the speed of alpha brain waves in the parietal cortex plays a key role. This region of the brain ...

Our eyes are continuously bombarded by an enormous amount of visual information—millions of shapes, colors, and ever-changing motion all around us. For the brain, this is no easy feat. On the one hand ...

Optical illusions are like mini brain tests that are designed to challenge your perception, observation, and visual ...