When animals move through complex visual environments, the brain cannot afford to analyze every detail one by one. Instead, it rapidly extracts the overall structure of the scene—for example, the mean ...
A tennis return can look almost automatic. The ball comes off the racket, crosses the court in a blur, and somehow a player ...
How does the brain create mental images? A new study reveals that visual imagination and perception share a common neural code.
A small team of brain researchers at South China Normal University, working with a colleague from the University of New South Wales, has found that the visual processing parts of the brain light up in ...
When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...
A new study reveals the brain doesn’t rely on a single clock but builds our sense of time through multiple stages across ...
Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...
My last article focused, oddly enough…on focus—namely, how to help gifted students who are easily distracted by outside stimuli. Those of you with easily distracted students or children of your own ...
Researchers found that expert birders show structural differences in areas linked to attention and perception.
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