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

New research in Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience shows that virtual reality can induce psychedelic-like cognitive benefits.

Timothy Vickery, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. The cognitive neuroscientist is primarily interested in visual ...

A team of scientists has used AI to detect ADHD in adults by analyzing how their brains process rapid visual information. The ...

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

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

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 ...

Cliff Saron, associate research scientist with the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, talks with the Dalai Lama about his research during a visit to India in February 2009. Intensive mental training ...

Imagine that you are watching a crowded hang-gliding competition, keeping track of a red and orange glider's skillful movements. Our brain uses separate circuits to achieve such outstanding tracking ...

Philosophical Topics, Vol. 44, No. 2, New Directions in the Philosophy of Perception (FALL 2016), pp. 301-326 (26 pages) What kind of content must visual states have if they are to offer direct ...

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 external ...