Visual perception and scene recognition encompass the complex cognitive processes by which humans extract, interpret and respond to visual information in real-world environments. This field ...

We see details in only a small portion of the world in front of us, one point at a time, guided by and processed in regions of the brain detected in new research described by Christian Kiefer and his ...

When animals move through complex visual environments, the brain cannot afford to analyze every detail one by one. Instead, it rapidly extracts the overall structure of the scene—for example, the mean ...

If watching Robert De Niro ordering hammer-based retribution on a cheat's hand in Casino instinctively made you wince, you are not alone. Many people say that seeing bodily injury on film makes them ...