Look at the little black cross at the center of this soft color field. Try not to move your eyes. Notice what happens to your perception of ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Vision has shown how motion can alter our perception of color. According to the researchers, movi...

The Hunt effect is a phenomenon in which object colors at low light levels are perceived less saturated compared to those observed at higher...

Honeybees are good visual learners, and for some time it's been known that they can distinguish colors, shapes, and patterns. They can a...

Many birds and insects have receptors for colors that we humans can't see.  Starlings, for example, can see colors in reflected ultravio...

Here's a question: Are our thoughts limited by having to move at the speed of speech?  And a bigger question: How is our mental life con...

Most people are familiar with the face / vase illusion (below). Psychologists refer to it as a "bistable percept."  A bistable per...

Take a look at this picture. What do you see? When you look at it again, do you see something else? Image courtesy Steve Stuart Williams and...

This was a cover feature I proposed for ImagineFX Magazine . They never used it, but I still believe it would be an awesome subject for arti...

Stored Sunlight, 5 x 8 inches, watercolor and gouache "The mind is a prediction engine, and nowhere is this more true than in visual ...

We bestow our visual attention very selectively, and that hierarchy of awareness is called the attentional (or foveal) spotlight. It's l...

In recent years, brain imaging studies have been able to recognize what image a person is looking at purely from brain activity. This is pos...

Oscar Reutersvärd  (1915-2002) has been called the "father of the impossible figure."  He created many drawings that looked solid,...

Researchers estimate that the neural wiring from the retina transmits information to the brain at approximately the same rate as an Ethernet...

Have you seen this painting of Ada Lovelace, the Victorian lady who helped invent the computer? Her eyes are kind of close together, but you...

Our eyes work with our brain to make sense of the world.  At any given moment our conscious attention is fixated on one spot, but we're ...

 Which is more important for face recognition: outline or tonal shapes? Jim Carrey (left) and Kevin Costner. According to vision scientists ...

One of the mysteries of visual perception is how the information all binds together into a singular experience after raw sensory data is dec...

Neurobiologist Susan R. Barry was an adult when she acquired depth perception for the first time. "Barry had been cross-eyed and stereo...

There's a lot of information online about the difference between the two hemispheres of the brain and what that means for artists. Many ...