A child reaches for a toy, hesitates, then turns away — not because their eyes cannot see it, but because their brain cannot ...

"Seeing is believing," so the idiom goes, but new research suggests vision also involves a bit of hearing too. "So, for example, if you are in a street and you hear the sound of an approaching ...

A Yale study explores how visual clutter influences perception, showing that its location affects information efficiency in the brain. By studying macaque monkeys, researchers found that while clutter ...

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Scientists take the next step in next step in understanding how the brain compresses huge "files" of visual information down to the essentials. Most of us are familiar with the idea of image ...

In contrast to the traditional idea that the processing of visual information consists of a sequence of feedforward operations, with neuronal functional properties taking on increasing complexity as ...

What does it mean to provide descriptions of visual content? In spoken presentations, all audience members should be able to perceive and understand all of the content. Oftentimes, presenters will use ...