Perceptual learning and visual cognition constitute an interdisciplinary field that investigates the brain’s remarkable capacity to refine visual processing through experience. By examining how ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

A new study reveals that your heart rate slows down more when you make a visual mistake than when you see things correctly. This suggests our bodies physically react to perceptual errors in real-time.

By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. From alpha brain waves to amygdala activity, scientists map how forests, wetlands, and even ...

A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to ...

A neuroimaging study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging has identified hyperactivity in the superior occipital ...

Modern warfare targets perception, using psyops, disinformation, influencers, data profiling, and emerging neurotechnology to ...

Being an expert birdwatcher may alter the structure and function of your brain. And these changes may enhance cognition even as you age, new research suggests.