“Smart” cameras are to be found in millions of homes, but the truth is they’re not all that smart. Facial recognition and motion detection are their main tricks… but what if you want to know if the ...

Object recognition isn’t just about crystal-clear images. Your brain can identify everyday objects using shapes, contrast, ...

A new study questions the longstanding view that the visual system is divided into two pathways, one for object-recognition and the other for spatial tasks. Using computational vision models, ...

New findings suggest neurons have much more functional dexterity than scientists previously realized. Our brains begin to create internal representations of the world around us from the first moment ...

Three decades of psychological research show that our visual and auditory senses work together. Famously, an experiment by Robert Sekuler (1997) found that the presence or absence of a clicking sound ...

When we have a thought, what is the first form that it takes? In all likelihood, it is an image — a visual representation of a feeling, an idea, a memory. We live in a highly visible world, and before ...