“It’s possible that the mice weren’t seeing them,” admits Shin, “because the technique has involved a relatively small number ...

In The Eye vs. The Megapixel Camera debate, as digital cameras advance toward higher megapixel counts and improved sensors, photographers and scientists alike wonder: how do our biological vision ...

What we see is not simply just a neural representation of the pattern of light in the eye, but an interpretation of this image, to which our needs and expectations contribute. These factors are shaped ...

Most intriguingly, psychologists in the 1960s had apparently discovered something remarkable about the illusion: only European and American urbanites fell for the trick. The illusion worked less well, ...

Images generated by photographic computer software are the first to depict accurate images of facial distortions experienced by patients with prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), a rare visual disorder that ...