This new project adds a verbal AI system (a large language model) to probe deeper into perception. Its goal is to study how ...

By moving beyond lab tasks to richer, real-world settings, like virtual reality, we can better understand how perception ...

This classic illusion isn’t just art, it’s psychology in motion. Whether you first see a young woman or an older lady reveals ...

New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists test the human mind.

Researchers have developed AI-generated “visual anagrams” — images that transform into entirely new objects when rotated — to explore how the brain processes perception.

New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are ...

“It’s possible that the mice weren’t seeing them,” admits Shin, “because the technique has involved a relatively small number ...

Children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder may see the world in subtly different ways compared to their ...

An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of the image below, the sensory input is four Pac Man–like black figures. But ...

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 ...

Most intriguingly, psychologists in the 1960s had apparently discovered something remarkable about the illusion: only European and American urbanites fell for the trick. The illusion worked less well, ...