People's perceptions and their interpretation of the world are known to often be influenced by their expectations and past ...

To clarify the mechanism of serial dependence in number perception, a research team conducted two tests, independently asking subjects to estimate the number of coins, or to estimate the value of ...

Tactile perception and motion processing are central to understanding how the human somatosensory system interprets the environment. The integration of spatial and temporal signals from the skin ...

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

When perceiving rich sensory information, some people may integrate its various aspects, whereas other people may selectively focus on its most salient aspects. We propose that neural gain modulates ...

Researchers have gained important insight into how the human brain processes an object in the visual system and where in the brain this processing takes place. The study shows people perceive objects ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in Trieste, published in PLOS Computational Biology. The research shows that, ...

Memory problems have long been considered the primary hallmark of dementia, but a team of researchers is now challenging this view. They argue that changes in sensory perception – from vision to ...

"We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are." This perceptual awareness has spread through human civilization for hundreds of years, but its exact origin is unknown. Remarkably, current ...