Draw what you see, not what you think what you see, is probably a recommendation that you've heard a lot if you're a beginner artist, but it can be harder than it might sound. It also raises questions ...

Optical illusions have fascinated scientists, psychologists, and artists for centuries because they reveal one simple truth ...

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 ...

A new study finds that the conscious perception of visual location occurs in the frontal lobes of the brain, rather than in the visual system in the back of the brain. The results are significant ...

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 ...

Blinking is one of the most frequent human activities, typically occurring every two to 10 seconds or about 10 blinks per minute. It has long been understood that blinking has protective effects for ...

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 ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in ...