A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to ...

For the first time, neuroscientists have established a link between shifts in our visual perception and the cadence of our steps while walking. The research, published in Nature Communications, shows ...

Specific rhythms of flickering light can synchronise brain activity, offering clues about perception and possible future ...

A series of recent brain-imaging studies has begun to explain a central mystery of the psychedelic experience: why people on psilocybin report that memories seem to blend with what they are actually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Discover why hills look steeper than they are and how eye height and gaze angle shape everyday visual perception. (CREDIT: Getty ...

Glass patterns have long served as a paradigmatic tool for unravelling the mechanisms underlying visual form perception and the integration of motion cues. These intricate stimuli, composed of ...

A new screening tool for visual perception difficulties after stroke that takes just 15 minutes to complete could help improve diagnosis of visual perception problems common in stroke survivors, new ...

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

To what extent has Earth’s gravity shaped our cognitive and brain functions? Utilizing spaceflight and a ground-based analog, a new study shows that the human brain relies on bodily gravitational ...

How people evaluate odors does not depend entirely on the odorant itself—context influences perception. A research team from the Leibniz Research Center for Working Environment and Human Factors ...

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 ...