Feeling Right Is Rewarding: How Inner Confidence Steals Your Brain’s Visual Resources
New research shows that the brain treats internal confidence as a reward, using reinforcement learning to divert limited visual processing ...
Tag: psychophysics
Reaching Out Warps What You Hear and See: Action Reshapes Multisensory Perception
New research shows that goal-directed pointing movements dynamically reshape audiovisual perception, making the fusion illusion stronger at movement targets during ...
Your Brain Learns New Weight Clues as Fast as Familiar Ones
A Durham University study finds that the brain's grip force predictions can rapidly learn arbitrary visual weight cues, whether shown ...
Why Robots Creeping Up Behind You Feel Faster Than They Really Are
A Japanese study finds that 92 percent of people perceive objects approaching from behind as moving faster than identical frontal ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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