We commonly say an art curator casts "an expert eye" over a painting, or an auditor over a set of accounts. But what is it that, for example, allows an experienced birdwatcher to identify an uncommon ...

People who lack a mind’s eye, a condition known as aphantasia, tend to struggle with recognizing faces. A recent study published in the journal Cortex provides evidence that these individuals have ...

A new neuroscience review suggests traveling brain waves build visual perception, shaping what we consciously see.

Functionally analogous to biological generative models, these traveling waves allow the brain to infer sensory causes, ...

While people explore the environment around them, their eyes constantly move between different objects, faces and other ...

A study published April 6 in the journal Nature Medicine looked at more than 500 brain scans from 267 people across five countries. The research analyzed how drugs like LSD, psilocybin (“magic ...

They say “money talks,” but what if you could make it vanish? In this tutorial, you’ll learn three visual coin tricks that demonstrate the real power of focus, timing, and suggestion. These illusions ...

Studies show that your brain doesn’t perceive the world exactly as it is. Instead, it “fills in gaps in perception.” The first layer of your brain’s primary visual cortex helps to decide what reality ...

Summary: Researchers have discovered that whether you are right- or left-handed influences which side of your brain processes fine visual details. The new “action asymmetry hypothesis” proposes that ...

We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that Anil Seth is a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the ...