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

New research shows that the superior colliculus, a primitive brain region, can independently interpret visual information.

Blindness profoundly affects people's lives. Around the world, several laboratories, including the Biomedical ...

For most of us, these illusions are harmless. But my new research, published in Perception, suggests people with visual snow ...

A new brain decoding method called mind captioning can generate accurate text descriptions of what a person is seeing or recalling—without relying on the brain's language system.

A new discovery has unraveled why we sometimes see colors that aren't there. The phenomenon of "color afterimages" is when ...

A new optical illusion is challenging viewers to find a hidden pinecone among autumn leaves, with only those with sharp ...

The technology works like a translator, not a mind reader – It converts brain scan patterns into coherent sentences by ...

It is tempting to think that aphantasia is a major disability, but in fact it is far from being a disability at all. First, ...

The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology ...

The human visual system provides us with a rich and meaningful percept of the world, transforming retinal signals into visuo-semantic representations. For a model of these representations, here we ...

Some people can spot a familiar face in a crowded place. Super-recognizers don’t just look longer, they sample smarter.