People rarely notice how their eyes shape their sense of the world, yet new research shows just how powerful this effect can ...

A quick and easily administered test that measures visual perception can accurately distinguish mild to moderate dementia associated with Lewy body disease (LBD) from dementia associated with ...

A new UCLA study challenges long-standing research claims that people of East Asian and European origins perform differently on a well-known visual perception test. The rod-and-frame task asks viewers ...

A popular theory in neuroscience called predictive coding proposes that the brain produces all the time expectations that are compared with incoming information. Errors arising from differences ...

Visual input often arrives in a noisy and discontinuous stream, owing to head and eye movements, occlusion, lighting changes, and many other factors. Yet the physical world is generally stable; ...

Optical illusions are mind-bending images that challenge our perception and visual skills. These illusions provide deep ...

Visual field is closely related to quality of life (QoL), and visual field loss is a factor that diminishes quality of life. Specifically, a 2020 report estimated that 76 million people worldwide ...

Past research has suggested that people's cultural differences may result in differences in basic visual perception. New research found no evidence that these differences play a significant role in ...

Perimetry (visual field testing) quantifies a patient’s retinal sensitivity to light and clarifies a deviation from normal ...