A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled.

How does the brain see the "big picture"? A new study reveals that the primary visual cortex (V1) calculates statistical ...

How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in everyday life, perceive the duration of events around us? The answer lies in how ...

An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of the image below, the sensory input is four Pac Man–like black figures. But ...

When animals move through complex visual environments, the brain cannot afford to analyze every detail one by one. Instead, ...

“Illusions are fun, but they are also a gateway to perception,” says Hyeyoung Shin, assistant professor of neuroscience at Seoul National University. Shin is the first author of a new study in Nature ...

Every illusion has a backstage crew. New research shows the brain’s own “puppet strings”—special neurons that quietly tug our perception—help us see edges and shapes that don’t actually exist. When ...

To what extent has Earth’s gravity shaped our cognitive and brain functions? Utilizing spaceflight and a ground-based analog, a new study shows that the human brain relies on bodily gravitational ...

At NVIDIA GTC, RealSense is showcasing a first-of-its-kind demonstration of autonomous humanoid navigation, reinforcing its ...