The visual perception of optical stimuli demands high performance from the brain. Every second, the eyes absorb more than 10 ...

A research team has been investigating the question of how we perceive a stable environment despite constant eye movements. The result: rapid and smooth eye movements are based on different mechanisms ...

The findings help clarify the neural basis of perception and offer a deeper understanding of the visual cortex in the brain. "Prior research has shown that visual clutter has an effect on the ...

Experiments with specially distorted rooms reveal that the way in which we perceive the size and even the shape of others is powerfully influenced by our emotional ...

A Yale study explores how visual clutter influences perception, showing that its location affects information efficiency in the brain. By studying macaque monkeys, researchers found that while clutter ...

The findings help clarify the neural basis of perception and offer a deeper understanding of the visual cortex in the brain. "Prior research has shown that visual clutter has an effect on the ...

Visual Perception and Sensory Adaptation Research investigating vision in the deaf has led to publications and grant awards. We have shown that deaf adults have much superior performance to visual ...

Is the perception of beauty intrinsic to how the brain processes visual information, like the way we immediately perceive the smell of sizzling bacon as wonderful, but the odor of a dead mouse ...