Ornamental Motifs Shape Aesthetic Pleasure and Conservation Intentions
An experiment with 80 participants found that cultural motif type and two- or three-dimensional presentation affect aesthetic pleasure, visual attention, ...
Tag: visual perception
Shared variance across FrACT visual tasks: Robust positive associations but inconclusive latent structure
Eight visual tasks showed broadly positive associations among 132 analyzed adults, with task similarity affecting correlation strength while factor models ...
Brain Rhythms Shape How We See: Alpha Waves Gate Vision in Real Time
New EEG research shows that the brain's decoding of continuous visual input fluctuates rhythmically with the phase of alpha oscillations, ...
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 ...
Good Vibes Shrink Numbers: Positive Emotions Bias the Brain’s Number Sense
New research shows that positive emotions and monetary rewards systematically bias the brain's number sense toward underestimating quantities, challenging the ...
Why a Foggy Forest May Restore You Better Than a Sunny Street
New experiments show that the visual contrast of a scene and a person's place-based social identity both shape how restorative ...
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 ...
Vision Problems May Be the Earliest Warning Sign of Lewy Body Dementia, New Study Finds
Newly designed visual processing tests reveal early dorsal and ventral stream deficits in Lewy body disease that outperform standard cognitive ...
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 ...
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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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