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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During her training in anthropology, Dorsa Amir, now at Duke University, became fascinated with the Müller-Lyer illusion. The ...

Sensory illusions reveal how the brain creates coherence when signals don’t align. In autism and ADHD, perception often ...

Visual experience triggers the formation of a web of neural connections in different brain areas in order to make sense of the world – and in particular, of feedback connections, which send ...

Audio cues can not only help us to recognize objects more quickly but can even alter our visual perception. That is, pair birdsong with a bird and we see a bird -- but replace that birdsong with a ...

Information processing by the brain is altered in depressed individuals. A study conducted at the University of Helsinki found that in depressed patients, the processing of visual perceptions is also ...

A fruit fly inspired sensor architecture that can combine wide angle motion detection with chemical sensing for drones and micro-bots.

Odors seem to impact our visual perception of colors, adjusting our perception of a ‘neutral’ color. A recent study first authored by Ryann Ward of Liverpool John Moores University (UK), has revealed ...

The angle of your gaze influences more than just visual impressions—it impacts decisions, behaviors, and even safety. For Shaffer and his team, including co-author Montse Juarez, the work is just the ...