Perceptual learning and visual cognition constitute an interdisciplinary field that investigates the brain’s remarkable capacity to refine visual processing through experience. By examining how ...

For a translator to turn one language (say, English) into another (say, Greek), she has to be able to understand both languages and what common meanings they point to, because English is not very ...

The Rorschach Inkblot Test (RIT) was developed in 1921 by Swiss Psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. While working in an inpatient psychiatric hospital, Rorschach experimented with upwards of 40 inkblots.

How optical illusions work has been long-debated among scientists and philosophers, who wonder whether these illusions stem from neural processing in the eye or involve higher-level cognitive ...

Test your focus with this viral optical illusion! Can you find the number 87 hidden among the 78s? Boost your brain power with this 7-second visual challenge now!

A research group led by Prof. Zhang Peng from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed how the human brain resolves perceptual conflicts and generates conscious ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our perception of thinking about an image differs from objective reality. These optical illusions occur due to the brain's attempt to interpret complex ...