Seeing feels immediate; we open our eyes and the world seems to appear as a continuous stream. But some visual illusions show that events occurring later can change how we perceive what happened ...

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Visual perception emerges from a cascade of neural transformations that begin with photoreceptors in the retina and proceed via the lateral geniculate nucleus to primary visual cortex (V1), thereafter ...

Whether we're staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

One fascinating example of this is the perception of a phenomenon known as a sunspin, an illusory movement experienced when focusing on a repeating pattern or texture. This isn’t a true motion, but ...

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Garrett Neske, PhD, has received federal funding to study ways that different areas of the brain communicate over long distances.

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Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...