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A new study examined the mechanisms of the Flashed Face Distortion Effect, finding that the effect is greatly diminished when ...

One confounding factor in how someone views a video is something psychologists have dubbed “slow-motion bias.” In one 2016 ...

Patients with infantile nystagmus had significant gains in near and distance visual acuity as well as stereopsis following regular sessions of vision training with RevitalVision software, according to ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

The human brain extracts complex information from visual inputs, including objects, their spatial and semantic interrelations, and their interactions with the environment. However, a quantitative ...

In older people with dementia, not recognising others is not uncommon – it eventually happens to everyone with Alzheimer’s ...

Alex Honnold's unusually high REM sleep could be the reason why the free-solo climber remains calm in life-threatening heights. Here's what science says.

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A mushroom, called Lanmaoa asiatica, can cause you to see countless tiny people everywhere you look when not prepared correctly.

Why do we care about places we may never visit? Why do stories about wildlife, people and cultures stay with us long after we ...