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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Test your visual acuity with a challenging hidden object puzzle! Six items are cleverly concealed within an ordinary scene, ...

A viral optical illusion challenges readers to find the hidden number \"7103\" amidst a grid of \"7105.\" The speed at which ...