Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to navigating their surroundings, machines have a natural disadvantage compared to humans. To help hone the ...

Optimal cue integration, Bayesian Causal Inference, spatial orienting, speech illusions and other key phenomena in audiovisual perception naturally emerge from the collective behavior of a population ...

Our survival depends upon our ability to observe the world around us accurately and reliably. Disturbances in visual perception occur in a range of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases, ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 114, No. 46 (November 14, 2017), pp. 12291-12296 (6 pages) The photopigment melanopsin supports reflexive visual ...

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 ...

Blindness profoundly affects people's lives. Around the world, several laboratories, including the Biomedical ...

Researchers specialized in psychiatry and psychology at the University of Helsinki investigated the effects of depression on visual perception. The study confirmed that the processing of visual ...

Visual Arts Research provides a forum for historical, critical, cultural, psychological, educational and conceptual research in visual arts and aesthetic education. Unusual in its length and breadth, ...