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

The visual system has limited capacity and cannot process everything that falls onto the retina. Instead, the brain relies on attention to bring salient details into focus and filter out ...

Visual Attention Attuned To Grabbable Objects Date: March 17, 2003 Source: Dartmouth College Summary: A Dartmouth research group has found a new and unexpected way our attention can be grabbed ...

Our visual attention is drawn to parts of a scene that have meaning, rather than to those that are salient or 'stick out,' according to new research from the Center for Mind and Brain at UC Davis ...

New work at the University of California, Davis, shows for the first time how visual attention affects activity in specific brain cells. The paper, published June 26 in the journal Nature, shows that ...

How Attention Can Alter Appearances. Peter U. Tse et al. in Handbook of Experimental Phenomenology: Visual Perception of Shape, Space and Appearance. Edited by Liliana Albertazzi. Wiley, 2013.

New work at the University of California, Davis, shows for the first time how visual attention affects activity in specific brain cells. The paper, published June 26 in the journal Nature, shows ...

A new study, led by Virginia Best at Boston University, is offering some of the clearest evidence to date as to how our auditory attention can be influenced by our eyes.