A quick visual puzzle challenged readers to find a hidden 'X' among numerous 'Y's. Successfully spotting the intruder ...

Discover why hills look steeper than they are and how eye height and gaze angle shape everyday visual perception. (CREDIT: Getty Images) People rarely notice how their eyes shape their sense of the ...

In her new book “Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life,” Amy E. Herman invites readers to practice their observational and critical-thinking skills by studying works of art.

Psychologists have found that our visual perception can be contaminated by memories of what we have recently seen, impairing our ability to properly understand and act on what we are currently seeing.

The human visual system excels in interpreting complex visual scenes, with symmetry perception playing a pivotal role in organising sensory input into coherent representations. Visual symmetry ...

According to the diametric model of the mind and of mental illness, genius is the rare, harmonious combination of both autistic and psychotic cognition in some unusual and/or original way. David ...

A new study sheds light on how the brain fills in the gaps of how we visually perceive the world around us. A Dartmouth College study sheds light on how the brain fills in the gaps of how we visually ...

New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists test the human mind. The work by Johns Hopkins University ...

People rarely notice how their eyes shape their sense of the world, yet new research shows just how powerful this effect can be. A study from Ohio researchers reveals that even small changes in the ...