A quick and easily administered test that measures visual perception can accurately distinguish mild to moderate dementia associated with Lewy body disease (LBD) from dementia associated with ...

A new UCLA study challenges long-standing research claims that people of East Asian and European origins perform differently on a well-known visual perception test. The rod-and-frame task asks viewers ...

Cliff Saron, associate research scientist with the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, talks with the Dalai Lama about his research during a visit to India in February 2009. Intensive mental training ...

Faces are of tremendous importance for human beings. That's why in the course of the evolution our visual perception has specialized in the recognition of faces in particular. Until now researchers ...

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 role in ...

Discover why hills look steeper than they are and how eye height and gaze angle shape everyday visual perception. (CREDIT: Getty Images) People rarely notice how their eyes shape their sense of the ...

Visual input often arrives in a noisy and discontinuous stream, owing to head and eye movements, occlusion, lighting changes, and many other factors. Yet the physical world is generally stable; ...

A simple visual test is surprisingly accurate at predicting IQ, according to new research. The study, published today (May 23) in the journal Current Biology, found that people's ability to ...