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 ...

In her new book “Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life,” Amy E. Herman invites readers to practice their observational and critical-thinking skills by studying works of art.

Psychologists have found that our visual perception can be contaminated by memories of what we have recently seen, impairing our ability to properly understand and act on what we are currently seeing.

A new study sheds light on how the brain fills in the gaps of how we visually perceive the world around us. A Dartmouth College study sheds light on how the brain fills in the gaps of how we visually ...

Blinking is one of the most frequent human activities, typically occurring every two to 10 seconds or about 10 blinks per minute. It has long been understood that blinking has protective effects for ...

A quick visual puzzle challenged readers to find a hidden 'X' among numerous 'Y's. Successfully spotting the intruder ...

According to the diametric model of the mind and of mental illness, genius is the rare, harmonious combination of both autistic and psychotic cognition in some unusual and/or original way. David ...