Perceptual learning and visual cognition constitute an interdisciplinary field that investigates the brain’s remarkable capacity to refine visual processing through experience. By examining how ...

An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of ...

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

You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now. But what if I told you that you’re actually experiencing a sophisticated hallucination?Perception isn’t the passive process that most of us ...

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

Have you ever stared at a simple drawing and seen something that isn’t actually there? Well, that’s your brain creating an ...

Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. She is a cognitive neuroscientist interested in the ...

Akshay Jagadeesh's path is a shining testament to how deep scholarly knowledge of neuroscience can shift gears to ...

More than 500 researchers from around the world — including dozens of deaf and signing scientists — will converge at Gallaudet Sept. 12-14 for the 2025 ...

The concept that cognitive health can be preserved or improved is often expressed as "use it or lose it." Numerous modifiable risk factors are associated with "losing" cognitive abilities with age and ...

This optical illusion is designed to fool your brain. Although the seahorse is technically not hiding, it may be difficult to ...