Because orientation is processed in early visual areas, this suggests that imagery's interaction with perception may occur at early stages of visual processing.

Visual perception is not a mere snapshot of the external world but a dynamic process in which current percepts are systematically influenced by past sensory experiences. This phenomenon, known as ...

Gestalt theory: For simplifying visual perception Gestalt is based on the law of simplicity. It indicates that our mind perceives everything in its simplest form.

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.

What mimes can teach us about visual perception Mimes "make us feel like we’re aware of an object just by seeming to interact with it." ...

People rarely notice how their eyes shape their sense of the world, yet new research shows just how powerful this effect can ...

Our visual perception depends more strongly on the utility of information than previously thought. This has been demonstrated in a series of experiments conducted by researchers at ETH Zurich and the ...

Visual perception is not just making a replica, says neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran The first step to causing a revolution in science is to smell out an anomaly, notes Professor ...

During her training in anthropology, Dorsa Amir, now at Duke University, became fascinated with the Müller-Lyer illusion.