Some animal species have their eyes positioned on their heads differently than how people do – and it comes with pluses and minuses for how they see.
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Driving is a complex task, neurologically speaking. Two experts explain what driving does to your brain, and how you can stay alert on the road.
About 1-4% of people have synaesthesia, a trait that both fascinates and puzzles scientists.
People and computers perceive the world differently, which can lead AI to make mistakes no human would. Researchers are working on how to bring human and AI vision into alignment.
Distinct disciplines are trained to notice different things.
Some of the most decisive moments in sport hinge on how athletes perceive, process and act on information in a matter of milliseconds.
Even the traditional five senses don’t operate in silo.
Our brains don’t actually perceive time – they infer it.
A unique window into how an overactive brain amplifies the patterns we see in the world.
A new paper highlights the importance of assessing social feasibility before reintroductions of predators like pine martens take place to ensure success.
Light comes in through our eyes upside down – but we can still interact with the world just fine.
An object’s color appears differently under different lighting and against different backgrounds − for different viewers. But that doesn’t mean colors are subjective.
During scrolling, the brain processes visuals quickly not critically, making it easy to miss details that reveal a fake. As technology advances, slow down, look closer and think critically.
If we are shown a lot of heavy bodies, the bodies we rate as attractive get heavier and the bodies we rate as “normal” get heavier.
Black doesn’t appear in the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. So why do we still see it?
Philosophers have argued for millennia about whether reality exists inside or outside our heads – but maybe there’s a pragmatic solution.
Philosophers have been debating whether we need conditioning to link information from different senses for centuries.
Something to bear in mind if you find yourself swiping through profiles on a dating app later today.
An aerospace engineer explains why it’s so hard to tell just how fast an airplane is really moving.
The idea that each person has a particular learning style is a persistent myth in education. But new research provides more evidence that you won’t learn better in one modality than another.
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