Some hyper-realistic masks more believable than human faces
New hyper-realistic masks are so authentic that 20% of the time, people believe they are real faces.... Read More...
visual neuroscience
Walking changes vision
Walking leads to an increase in processing of peripheral visual input.... Read More...
Beauty in the biased eye of the beholder
When we see a painting, we rate its aesthetic value based upon other artwork we have just seen. ... Read More...
Why, Sometimes, We Don’t See What We Actually Saw
Crashes in visual processing occur when neurons processing one image are tasked with processing another too quickly. This results in either one or both images being unable to reach our conscious awareness.... Read More...
Happy, angry or neutral expressions? Eyes react just as fast
The initial reaction of the brain is independent of the facial emotional expression we see. It is only after the eye movement is completed that the brain shows strong responses to the emotional expression of a face.... Read More...
How the brain repurposes unused regions
There is an underlying organization that dictates how the visual cortex is repurposed in blind people, which is not random. ... Read More...
Learning to read boosts the visual brain
Learning to read enhances responses to other visual input in early visual areas of the brain.... Read More...
Brain may not need body movements to learn virtual spaces
Vision appears to play a more dominant role than motor movements when it comes to encoding memory of large-scale spaces. The findings address a long-standing debate as to whether or not body movements aid the learning of physical spaces.... Read More...
New insights into how astrocytes help the brain process information
Noradrenaline is essential for astrocytes to respond to local stimulation.... Read More...
Human perception of colors does not rely entirely on language
Based on the study of a stroke patient with damage to the occipito-temporal brain region, researchers made a big discovery about color categorization. They reveal color categorization and naming can be independent in the human brain. The finding challenges long-standing theories of the mandatory involvement of language in adult human cognition and color discrimination.... Read More...
Seeing it both ways: Visual perspective in memory
How we recall our memories, either through first-person perspective or as an observer, can affect the vividness and potency of the memory. Remembering an event in first-person perspective can make the memory stronger.... Read More...
New artificial compound eye could improve 3D object tracking
A new, bio-inspired compound eye is helping researchers to understand how insects sense an object and its trajectory with such speed.... Read More...