Practice makes perfect. But imaginary practice? Scientists show that perceptual learning -- learning by repeated exposure to a stimulus -- can occur by mental imagery as much as by the real thing. The ...

We recently showed that improved perceptual performance on a visual motion direction–discrimination task corresponds to changes in how an unmodified sensory representation in the brain is interpreted ...

Despite decades of research, the mechanisms behind fast flashes of insight that change how a person perceives their world, ...