Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the brain's executive control center, ...
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People's perceptions of the world are easily impacted by the angle at which they view objects in it, suggests a new study.
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Shading brings 3D forms to life, beautifully carving out the shape of objects around us. Despite the importance of shading for perception, scientists have long been puzzled about how the brain actually uses it. Researchers ...
Jul 11, 2025
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When we see the dynamic world in which we move, or even watch a movie in the cinema, information from each point in our eye's field of view has different properties that our brain has to process separately, before combining ...
Apr 23, 2025
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The human brain can learn through experience to filter out disturbing and distracting stimuli—such as a glaring roadside billboard or a flashing banner on the internet. Scientists at Leipzig University and Vrije Universiteit ...
Apr 15, 2025
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When comparing two objects, people either rely on internal memories of these objects or run their hands and eyes over them to directly perceive their similarity. The latter approach, a shortcut that offloads cognition to ...
Mar 31, 2025
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How the brain feels about the world around it is the subject of a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, co-authored by Edward A. Vessel, the Eugene Surowitz Assistant Professor of Computational ...
Feb 18, 2025
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Imagine driving a vehicle on a day when there is a lot of traffic. In a complex task like this one, we need to scan the environment constantly and look at different parts of the scene to monitor everything that is going on.
Sep 19, 2024
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A new study from the University of Fribourg highlights previously unknown links between the body and the brain. The findings of this research show how our bodily rhythms affect our visual perception.
Sep 19, 2024
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New research may have turned more than 100 years of thinking about the way our brains process visual information on its head.
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