Aging Brains Rewire How Attention Shapes Sound-and-Sight Perception
A new EEG study shows that sustained visual attention shapes audiovisual integration differently in younger and older adults, with aging ...
Tag: psychophysics
How Loud Must a Distraction Be? Salience Shapes Second-Order Attentional Suppression
New experiments show that the brain can suppress unique-but-unknown distractors based on second-order salience, with low-salience singletons suppressed more strongly ...
Your Mood and the Scenery Shape How You Read a Crowd’s Emotions
A new study shows that background scenery and the observer's own mood systematically influence how people judge the collective emotion ...
Masks That Steal an Object’s Borders Are the Ones That Hide It Best
New psychophysical experiments show that metacontrast masks hide flashed objects most effectively when they reverse, rather than preserve, the ownership ...
A Hidden Vision Workout May Speed Up How Fast Adults Read
A nine-day home-based visual search training program using Gabor patches sped up some timed reading tasks in typical adult readers, ...
When the Brain Doesn’t Know Which Task to Do, Interference Clouds Perception
A combined monkey, human, and neural network study reveals that feature interference in the visual cortex explains why uncertain tasks ...
Arousal Does Not Enhance the Dominant Spatial Scope of Attention, Study Finds
A new psychophysics study reports strong Bayesian evidence that tonic arousal does not amplify the dominant narrow or broad spatial ...
Trial-unique Stroop task reveals context-specific control in memory-guided attention
Every time you glance at a word printed in the wrong color and force yourself to name the ink rather ...
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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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