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 ...

Timothy Vickery, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. The cognitive neuroscientist is primarily interested in visual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An important clarification is that this strategy is best used later in a run when motivation is lagging and tiredness sets in ...

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 ...

Every day, companies, products and media are competing for consumer's attention. We give it away constantly, often without realizing it. While attention is intangible and difficult to quantify, once ...