Stimulating neurons to induce particular perceptions in mice’s minds
Using optogenetics, researchers stimulated neurons in the visual cortex of mice to induce illusory images in the animals' minds.... Read More...
perception
What You Think Is What You See
Perception and working memory are more deeply entangled than previously believed.... Read More...
How expectation influences perception
Brain activity patterns in the frontal cortex encode beliefs and affect how we perceive the world around us.... Read More...
Choosing the perfect pooch poses challenges similar to dating
Findings could help animal shelters to improve the pet adoption process and find the perfect pet partner for people.... Read More...
Why you may be prone to hiring a liar, and not even know it
People perceive liars to be more successful when it comes to certain high-pressure sales professions, such as investment banking and advertising. Findings explain why managers are more likely to higher deceptive people, believing they are more competent for high-pressure sales roles.... Read More...
Do you smell what I smell?
Small changes in a single olfactory receptor gene can affect how strong, or how pleasant, a person finds a particular odor.... Read More...
The brain’s imperfect execution of mathematically optimal perception
Perception is founded on Bayesian principles, even though the brain's execution of strategies appears to be imperfect. Researchers say the view perception is an imperfect Bayesian inference can provide a middle ground between traditional and anti-Bayesian models.... Read More...
How Attention Helps the Brain Perceive an Object
Low-frequency optogenetic stimulation of the visual region of the brain impairs an animal's ability to make fine sensory discriminations. ... Read More...
Our Brains Reveal Our Choices Before We’re Even Aware of Them
Researchers find neural activation patterns were predictive of the contents of voluntary visual imagery as far as 11 seconds before the choice of what to imagine. These results suggest that the contents of future visual imagery can be biased by current or prior neural representations.... Read More...
Brain Represents Optical Illusion as Delayed Reality
Researchers report the same subset of neurons encode actual and illusory flow motion, supporting the concept Jan Purkinje proposed 150 years ago, that "illusions contain visual truth".... Read More...
Myth of Mona Lisa’s Gaze Debunked
A new study reveals the 'Mona Lisa Effect', the perception that the eyes of a painting follow the viewer as they move closer to it, does not occur with da Vinci's famous work. The study debunks a long standing myth about the famous painting.... Read More...
Human Brain Allocates Attention Based on Known Size of Objects
Researchers report our knowledge about the real world size of an object, and not its visual size, helps to guide our attention.... Read More...