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

Improvements were seen in a range of visual tasks. The students were able to better perceive moving objects (motion perception) in the far periphery, they were able to better attend to visual ...

The process of visual perception is a best guess scenario. When we look at something, the brain uses visual cues—sensory signals that convey information—to help work out what that thing is.

This unusual triumph of kids over grown-ups suggests that the brain’s capacity to consider the context of visual scenes, and not just focus on parts of scenes, develops slowly, say psychologist ...

Many kids are suffering from visual processing disorder, and it’s keeping a countless number of undiagnosed children from being able to read.

Use your illusion What mimes can teach us about visual perception Mimes "make us feel like we’re aware of an object just by seeming to interact with it." ...

Preschool children's evaluation and integration of visual and auditory information in speech perception was compared with that of adults. Subjects identified speech events, which consisted of ...

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Our visual perception seems to depend more strongly on the potential utility of information than previously thought. In another experiment, the researchers were able to show that our retinas already ...