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

Practice results in better learning. Consider learning a musical instrument, for example: the more one practices, the better one will be able to learn to play. The same holds true for cognition ...

The process of improving the synchronization between visual perception and motor skills is called visuomotor learning. It ...

Brain stimulation, when coupled with visual training therapy, has dramatic effects on increasing learning speed and retention in both healthy adults and patients who have experienced vision loss ...

As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain ...

New research shows that the brain's visual perception system automatically and unconsciously guides decision-making through valence perception. The findings offer important insights into consumer ...

Traditionally, perception and cognition have been considered distinct domains of psychological science. Perception was understood to be the raw data collector—our sensory touchpoint with the ...

Neuroscientists have found an anatomical link between cognitive and perceptual symptoms in autism. The study identified a posterior region of the brain whose size -- amount of gray matter -- is ...

People rarely notice how their eyes shape their sense of the world, yet new research shows just how powerful this effect can ...

Does Culture Change Visual Perception? Debunking the Carpentered-World Hypothesis The downfall of a long-standing theory in psychology raises a question: How much does the environment we’re ...