During her training in anthropology, Dorsa Amir, now at Duke University, became fascinated with the Müller-Lyer illusion.

Visual attention and perception represent central processes in human cognition, enabling the selective processing of relevant visual input while filtering extraneous information.

However, the brain processes these cues in distinct ways. With real faces, our attention is drawn mainly to the eyes and where they are looking. With pareidolia, we tend to take in the overall ...

Gabriele Ferretti, Francesco Marchi, Visual attention in pictorial perception, Synthese, Vol. 199, No. 1/2 (December 2021), pp. 2077-2101 ...

Dr Gazzaley: I guess it was around 8 years ago. We had been studying the neuromechanisms of attention and perception and working memory—especially in the context of aging and how interference ...

The World Cup may represent a case study of selective attention regarding what we want to see. This selective perception can influence what we later remember about the game, regardless of who won.

A special set of neurons directs mice's attention to or away from their peers, depending on the situation. The Kobe ...

A running controversy among scientists studying visual perception centers on the neural basis for our powers to pick out figure from background. Look, for instance, at Edgar Rubin's famous image ...

But we don’t judge in a vacuum. There’s pre-fight knowledge, crowd noise, TV commentary, and bright lights—all of which influence attention and perception.