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 ...
Tag: psychophysics
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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