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 ...

The motion aftereffect, sometimes referred to as the "waterfall illusion," is one of the oldest visual illusions ever discovered, dating as far back as Aristotle. When we are exposed to a continuously ...

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 ...

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 ...