Neuroscientists have artificially increased neuronal activity in part of the brain by briefly shining light on genetically modified neurons. They saw that this manipulation selectively enhanced ...

With their massive flapping ears and long trunks, it isn't hard to believe that elephants tend to rely on acoustic and olfactory cues for communication. They use gestures and visual displays to ...

Visual attention and perception represent central processes in human cognition, enabling the selective processing of relevant visual input while filtering extraneous information. This capacity ...

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Test your keen eyesight with a visual puzzle! Amidst a grid of inverted 24s, a single inverted 42 is cleverly hidden. This challenge highlights how ou ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract According to the received view in the philosophical literature on pictorial perception, when perceiving an object in a picture, we perceive ...

A running controversy among scientists studying visual perception centers on the neural basis for our powers to pick out figure from background. Look, for instance, at Edgar Rubin's famous image at ...