Visual illusions that challenge depth perception show how perspective and angles mislead the eye. A $2,500 full body scan ...

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 ...

Rudolf Arnheim, a German-born psychologist and visual theorist whose writings influenced generations of thinkers about the relationship between art and perception, died June 9 at Glacier Hills ...

Rather than provide a complete view of the world, our retina already tries to process information in the most useful way possible. This means that cognitive biases start long before we consciously ...

A new study sheds light on how the brain fills in the gaps of how we visually perceive the world around us. A Dartmouth College study sheds light on how the brain fills in the gaps of how we visually ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vision scientists are obsessed with illusions. This isn't because illusions shatter the sense that we have direct access to the physical properties of the external world. And it isn't because ...

It might be clichéd to say that religious people see the world differently, but new research finds that Dutch Calvinists notice embedded visual patterns quicker than their atheist compatriots. Culture ...