Scene selective cortical regions are more sensitive to age than face-selective regions when it comes to memory and perception. Read More
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Our ability to pinpoint the exact size and location of objects varies from one person to the next, and even within our own individual field of vision. Read More
Micro-saccades, or tiny eye movements, can be used as an index of our ability to anticipate relevant information in the environment, independent of the information's sensory modality. Read More
People with dyslexia experience difficulties when acoustic variation was added to speech sounds. In the absence of the variation, neural speech sound processing was consistent between dyslexic and typical readers. Difficulties in detecting linguistically relevant information during acoustic variation in speech may contribute to a dyslexic person's deficits in forming native language phoneme representations during infancy. Read More
A new study sheds light on why we get tricked by a classic optical illusion. Researchers found brightness estimations occur before visual information reaches the visual cortex, probably originating in the retina. Read More
Study provides an answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether people can see the world objectively. In terms of visual perception, the answer is no. Read More
Neuroimaging study sheds new light on how we perceive colors. Activity in higher visual cortex areas matched the colors test subjects saw. Read More
Prediction errors play a role in the context of dynamic perceptual events that take place within fractions of a second. Findings support the hypothesis that visual perception occurs as a result of a decision process. Read More
Visually represented information is a functional part of conceptual knowledge. The extend of the visual representations is influenced by visual experience. Read More
Contextual information, especially space and sequence, contributes to the distortion of perception in short-term memory. Read More
Brain activity alters over the heartbeat cycle, helping us make sure certain information is kept out of our conscious experience. The findings provide a conceptual framework to explain how internal signals integrate into our conscious perception of the world. Read More
Study provides new evidence supporting the theory that perceptual limitations are caused by a correlated noise in neural activity. Read More
