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

His research is on the connection between language and visual perception, or, in other words, between what we say and what we see. Understanding these two activities — seeing and speaking — may at ...

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 ...

Therefore, the findings of Williams and colleagues highlight the importance of multisensory processes in perception, demonstrating that sounds can indeed alter how we recognize visual objects.

Disturbances in visual perception occur in a range of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases, including autism, schizophrenia and stroke. This study, the first to map all thalamic ...

Timothy Vickery, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. The cognitive neuroscientist researches visual cognition, including ...

Investigators have created the first images that accurately depict facial distortions experienced by people with PMO, a rare visual disorder that is often mistaken for mental illness.