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.
The faces of celebrities are remembered more precisely, but less accurately researchers say.
Perception of objects is robust to changes in our environment.
The basics of visual perception, such as object orientation, are largely independent of cultural variation and apply broadly across human populations.
Certain auditory cues not only help us recognize an object more quickly, but they also even alter our visual perception.
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?
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.
While previous studies point to an overlap between perception and memory, a new study finds the two are systematically different.
The color red is not particularly strong in terms of the strength of gamma oscillations it generates in the brain.
Study reveals how changes in pupil size affect the way we perceive our surroundings.
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.
A newly proposed learning method for those on the autism spectrum accelerates the learning process and can help to improve visual perception.