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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·March 15, 2023·5 min read

Visually Navigating on Foot Uses a Unique Brain Region

The brain uses a specific region called the occipital place area (OPA) to navigate through spaces visually while walking, and not when crawling or using other modes of movement. This discovery sheds light on how children develop spatial awareness and interact with their surroundings as they learn to walk.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology Visual Neuroscience

·March 8, 2023·5 min read

Celebrity Sightings Have a Built-in Contradiction

The faces of celebrities are remembered more precisely, but less accurately researchers say.

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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·January 6, 2023·4 min read

The Power of Lines and Strokes: How Our Brain Recognizes Line Drawings

Perception of objects is robust to changes in our environment.

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Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Visual Neuroscience

·December 19, 2022·5 min read

Some Claim Culture Affects Our Basic Visual Perception

The basics of visual perception, such as object orientation, are largely independent of cultural variation and apply broadly across human populations.

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Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·December 7, 2022·5 min read

Hearing Is Believing: Sounds Can Alter Our Visual Perception

Certain auditory cues not only help us recognize an object more quickly, but they also even alter our visual perception.

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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·November 22, 2022·4 min read

Could We Train Our Brains to See New Colors?

Researchers question if our brains can take in three primary color inputs and turn them into the range of different colors we can see, could a little bit more mental work result in us unlocking different hues?

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Featured Neuroscience

·October 25, 2022·5 min read

Word and Face Recognition Can Be Adequately Supported With Half a Brain

Hemispherectomy patients who had a hemisphere of their brain removed during childhood can correctly recognize differences between pairs of words or faces 80% of the time, a new study reports. The findings reveal how the brain adapts when it is highly plastic.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Visual Neuroscience

·October 18, 2022·5 min read

How the Brain Separates Perception From Memory

While previous studies point to an overlap between perception and memory, a new study finds the two are systematically different.

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Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Visual Neuroscience

·October 8, 2022·5 min read

The Effect of the Color Red on Brain Waves

The color red is not particularly strong in terms of the strength of gamma oscillations it generates in the brain.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·September 30, 2022·5 min read

Pupil Dilation: A Window to Perception

Study reveals how changes in pupil size affect the way we perceive our surroundings.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·August 11, 2022·6 min read

How Different Smells Can Influence the Visual Perception of Emotions

Researchers found a significant link between olfaction and visual sensory processing, reporting specific smells influence the identification of facial emotions, and facial expressions influence the emotional response to smell.