A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to produce vivid hallucinations, even when a person’s eyes are closed. Studies ...

Optical illusions demonstrate how the brain interprets visual information. This short video presents a simple illusion experiment. Viewers can test how their perception reacts to the effect. The ...

The Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT) is a nonverbal assessment designed to measure general reasoning ability in K-12 students, helping schools identify students with strong problem-solving ...

A new study reveals that your heart rate slows down more when you make a visual mistake than when you see things correctly. This suggests our bodies physically react to perceptual errors in real-time.

Specific rhythms of flickering light can synchronise brain activity, offering clues about perception and possible future ...

This study provides important insights into how working memory shapes perceptual decisions, using a dual-task design, continuous mouse tracking, and hierarchical Bayesian modeling. By dissociating ...

This important study describes long-range serial dependence of performance on a visual texture discrimination training task that manipulated conditions to induce differing degrees of location transfer ...

People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

For the Visual Perception test, in fact, there are many ways, but practising optical illusions in a daily routine improves your depth perception regarding any visual illusion. These types of illusion ...

Geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects more than 5 million persons worldwide. No therapies to restore vision in ...

Introduction Visual perception and visual-motor integration skills are key predictors of handwriting. Children with cerebral palsy often experience difficulties in these areas, which can negatively ...

Children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder may see the world in subtly different ways compared to their peers, according to a new study ...