Close your eyes and picture a coffee cup. Suddenly, the dark fills with shape, color, and texture. It’s a picture as vivid as ...

A small team of brain researchers at South China Normal University, working with a colleague from the University of New South Wales, has found that the visual processing parts of the brain light up in ...

How does the brain create mental images? A new study reveals that visual imagination and perception share a common neural code.

Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs. The ball and the water behave very differently, and it turns out that your brain has ...

Researchers at Loughborough University have found that reduced visual processing speed can flag dementia risk as many as 12 ...

Critical flicker fusion (CFF), a measure of visual processing speed, predicts executive function in younger and older adults and may be helpful in predicting decline in executive function, say ...

Researchers found that expert birders show structural differences in areas linked to attention and perception.

A tennis return can look almost automatic. The ball comes off the racket, crosses the court in a blur, and somehow a player ...