According to Firestone, people also can't help recognizing an object being mimed, even when there is no physical object present—another example of how the brain fills in the gaps in our perception.

Our visual perception depends more strongly on the utility of information than previously thought. This has been demonstrated in a series of experiments conducted by researchers at ETH Zurich and the ...

Constant training improves the capacities of human perception. Just as years of practice hone the senses of smell and taste of sommeliers, for example, so too are experienced radiologists able to ...

In addition, when visual inputs conflict with clues from other senses, vision tends to dominate. This supremacy is why, for example, ventriloquists are so compelling.

It turns out that a similar task must be carried out within our own minds when translating visual information into linguistic information — a task Alon Hafri, an assistant professor in the Department ...

Conscious perception has little to do with primary visual cortex, research suggests. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 03 / 120305131806.htm ...

In the case of visual perception, researchers say, the location of visual clutter didn’t change the order of the phone tree, but it did change how well the message was relayed person to person. “For ...