With extensive experience in evaluating cognitive assessment tools and visual reasoning frameworks, I have consistently found that inverted Brain Teasers serve as a rigorous measure of perceptual ...

Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body’s energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you’re doing right now. Reading these words, feeling the weight of your body in a ...

The ability to conjure pictures in the mind’s eye enables us to remember the past and imagine the future. It also allows us to plan, navigate and create works of art. In a study published April 9 in ...

When animals move through complex visual environments, the brain cannot afford to analyze every detail one by one. Instead, it rapidly extracts the overall structure of the scene—for example, the mean ...

Imagine arriving at a busy location with people moving around and a multitude of visual and other sensory cues vying for your attention. How does the brain integrate such floods of sensory information ...

Flashing light can do more than illuminate a room. Delivered at specific rhythms and viewed through closed eyelids, it can produce vivid visual hallucinations, geometric patterns, bursts of colour and ...

A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for decades. Experts say the findings are the strongest evidence yet that cognitive ...

Join Josh, Gabbie, and Oli from the Jolly series as they react to mind-bending optical illusions and visual puzzles! Watch their hilarious and insightful responses as each tricky image challenges ...

Despite decades of research, the mechanisms behind fast flashes of insight that change how a person perceives their world, termed "one-shot learning," have remained unknown. A mysterious type of ...

Toyota is once again asking enthusiasts to read between the lines. A newly released teaser image carries just one sentence. “Something new is on the horizon”, and the image offers only a handful of ...