Visual hallucinations (VH), defined a visual perception without a corresponding object in the visual environment, are characteristic of Lewy body disorders and associated with adverse outcomes.

Visual mental imagery refers to the generation and manipulation of visual-like experiences in the absence of corresponding sensory input. It relies on distributed brain networks that overlap with ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the fascinating ways our brains construct a subjective reality by decoding the deceptive nature of ...

Why does the brain split visual spatial perception between its hemispheres? A new review by neuroscientists examines the advantages and trade-offs, and how the brain ultimately makes vision feel ...

Most people use the terms “optical illusion” and “visual illusion” interchangeably, much like “fluid” and “liquid” or “sofa” and “couch” are synonyms. At first glance, this might be seemingly pedantic ...

Imagine hammering a nail into a wall: Your dominant hand swings the hammer while the other holds the nail steady. In a new theory, Cornell psychology scholars propose that everyday tasks like this are ...

A research team from the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit and the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory at Toyohashi University of Technology has found that approach–avoidance behavior in a virtual ...

Scientists once viewed the thalamus largely as a relay station: a kind of biological switchboard routing sensory information ...

Witness an incredible optical illusion designed to blur the very perception of reality. This mind-bending trick will challenge what your eyes see and what your brain believes. A fascinating ...

A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled. Researchers at TUM have succeeded in observing the visual information flow ...