Perceptual learning and visual cognition constitute an interdisciplinary field that investigates the brain’s remarkable capacity to refine visual processing through experience. By examining how ...

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

Humans have an uncanny ability to recognize faces. Decades of research on the topic have revealed how good we are at recognizing faces across changes in viewpoint, expression, even age. We learn to ...

Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. She is a cognitive neuroscientist interested in the ...

A new optical illusion, shared by TikTok creator Mia Yilin, has gone viral across social media. According to a video posted ...

For these creative people, visual thinking can mean using mental diagrams and snapshots to grasp ideas for oneself, and planning visual ways of presenting them to others. Back in the 1970s, the ...

The reflexes of the eye are automatic adjustments your eyes make to help you see and keep them from being damaged. They can respond to light and dark, adjusting how much light enters the retina.

In a recent review published in Brain Sciences, researchers reviewed existing data on visual impairments among Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. Parkinson's disease (PD), a widely prevalent ...

Dave's research focuses on human perception (e.g., visual cognition) and memory from a broad-based, computational perspective. To shed light on these basic cognitive processes, he finds converging ...