Scientists have shown that people are able to tell apart morning from evening depictions in paintings using simple and subtle color clues in the image.
Jan 17, 2024
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Are you feeling blue—or seeing red? Maybe turning green with envy? You're not alone in color-coding your emotions, University of Toronto researchers say in a new paper confirming associations between feelings and certain ...
May 4, 2023
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Reading plays an important role in our society and is a fundamental component of our education system. However, reading can also compromise our visual health. Children and adolescents spend many hours reading at a developmental ...
Apr 4, 2023
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Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research from Wellesley College published in the Journal of Vision has found that bar ...
Feb 3, 2022
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A computer network closely modeled on part of the human brain is enabling new insights into the way our brains process moving images—and explains some perplexing optical illusions.
Feb 25, 2021
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When we pass through an art gallery, what determines our idea of beauty? A University of Sydney study of how people rate the aesthetics of each artwork shows part of our aesthetic assessment is due to the painting you saw ...
Nov 20, 2019
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Georgetown University neuroscientists say they have identified how people can have a "crash in visual processing"—a bottleneck of feedforward and feedback signals that can cause us not to be consciously aware of stimuli ...
Oct 23, 2019
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The maturation of visual acuity in both amblyopia and myopia may be closely associated with the development of pathways signaling bright features in the brain, according to research published in the Journal of Neuroscience ...
Jun 17, 2019
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How can we tell what a person is thinking? Sometimes, it is enough to observe one's behavior, for example, how they respond to a stimulus in the environment. The same holds for knowing whether one has learned something of ...
Feb 21, 2019
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A team of scientists has uncovered a neurological synergy that occurs in visual adaptation, a phenomenon in which perception is altered by prolonged exposure to a stimulus.
Sep 4, 2018
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