When a Stranger’s Gaze Decides Which Gap Looks Wider
A new study finds that identical gaps formed by avatars are judged differently depending on task context, with a central ...
Tag: psychophysics
Fear of a Virtual Spider Dulls the Sense of Touch While You Move
A virtual reality study shows that avoiding a threatening spider suppresses the sense of touch on the moving hand more ...
Brief Multisensory Training Reshapes Audiovisual Timing in Autistic Youth, but Speech Gains Remain Elusive
A brief multisensory timing training narrowed the temporal binding window in autistic children and adolescents for about a week, but ...
How Long Does the Brain Take to See One Object? A Clockwise Search Trick Finally Measures It
Researchers at the University of Bremen have validated a visual-search method in which the target's position in a clockwise array ...
Up Is Not Down: Head Movements Pull Attention in Opposite Directions Depending on Axis
New experiments show that attention follows vertically tilting heads but moves opposite to horizontally turning heads, revealing a dimensional asymmetry ...
Your Brain Really Does Average Numbers, New Study Finds
A new pair of experiments shows that people genuinely compute the average of symbolic digit arrays, with mean distance from ...
How the Brain Unscrambles a Visually Warped Alphabet
A new computational study shows that human vision handles orientation-redundant distortions better than orientation noise, revealing how spatial imprecision in ...
Your Brain Keeps Attention Locked on Moving Targets Even When Tracking Gets Harder
New EEG research shows that faster objects and more distractors impair multiple object tracking performance without weakening the attentional enhancement ...
Your Eyes Rewrite the Map: How Attention Shifts Meaning Priorities Over Time
Tracking 100 viewers across 100 real-world scenes, researchers show that distinct semantic features guide eye movements on separate, shifting time ...
Umpires Are Bayesian Brains: Count Bias in Baseball Calls Reveals Rational Perception
A study of 451,172 Major League Baseball pitches shows that umpires' count-dependent strike zone shifts follow the mathematics of Bayesian ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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