Embodied artificial intelligence (AI) systems are robotic agents that rely on machine learning algorithms to sense their ...

Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

By Priyanjana Pramanik, MSc. New ultra–high-field brain scans reveal hidden body maps inside the visual system, showing how ...

Researchers specialised in psychiatry and psychology at the University of Helsinki investigated the effects of depression on visual perception. The study confirmed that the processing of visual ...

A popular theory in neuroscience called predictive coding proposes that the brain produces all the time expectations that are compared with incoming information. Errors arising from differences ...

Research claims made over recent years that people of East Asian and European descent perform differently on a well-known visual perception test as a result of fundamental cultural differences may be ...

Misophonia is a condition in which people experience intense, negative physical and emotional reactions to certain trigger sounds. Trigger sounds often include everyday orofacial sounds, like chewing, ...

Past research has suggested that people's cultural differences may result in differences in basic visual perception. New research found no evidence that these differences play a significant role in ...

Agnosia is a rare condition in which a person cannot recognize and identify objects, people, or sounds through one or more senses, even though their sensory functions are otherwise typical. Agnosia is ...