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

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 ...

His research is on the connection between language and visual perception, or, in other words, between what we say and what we see. Understanding these two activities — seeing and speaking — may at ...

Past research has suggested that people's cultural differences may result in differences in basic visual perception. New research found no evidence that these differences play a significant ...

A new UCLA study challenges long-standing research claims that people of East Asian and European origins perform differently on a well-known visual perception test. The rod-and-frame task asks viewers ...

Therefore, the findings of Williams and colleagues highlight the importance of multisensory processes in perception, demonstrating that sounds can indeed alter how we recognize visual objects.

Timothy Vickery, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. The cognitive neuroscientist researches visual cognition, including ...

Posterior cortical atrophy, an early symptom of Alzheimer's, results in visual perception impairment that often precedes memory loss by several years.