Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert ...

Advances in technology have greatly accelerated scientific understanding of vision and the brain. Researchers can now ...

New research reveals that numbers in our visual field can subtly distort how we judge spatial positions, showing that perception is shaped by both numerical magnitude and object-based processing.

Vision loss has long been treated as a one-way street, a devastating endpoint rather than a problem the brain might quietly ...

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 ...

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...

New research published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging sheds light on how psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, affect the brain’s ability to perceive and ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Slower visual field loss in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma was linked to greater physical activity, ...

You probably don't remember the first time you heard music through a pair of stereo headphones. It's actually an amazing experience: The music sounds like it's right inside your head. You're so used ...