Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality. Adopting another person's visual perspective is a complex skill that emerges around the age of two.

Using a blink-and-you'll-miss-it experiment, researchers from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that individuals differ widely in the rate at which they perceive visual signals. Some people ...

About a year ago, I reported on Peggy St. Jacques' hypothesis that recalling autobiographical memories from a third-person, observer-like perspective (as opposed to replaying a memory through your own ...

When you recall specific "when, where, and, who" details of a childhood memory, do you view the scene through your own eyes, or do you see yourself as a child through the lens of an outside observer?

For a translator to turn one language (say, English) into another (say, Greek), she has to be able to understand both languages and what common meanings they point to, because English is not very ...

Every day, various types of sensory information fromthe external environment are transferred to the brainthrough different modalities and then processed to generate a series of coping behaviors. Among ...

Audio cues can not only help us to recognize objects more quickly but can even alter our visual perception. That is, pair birdsong with a bird and we see a bird -- but replace that birdsong with a ...

The successions of visual culture. Vision has an art history -- Vision and the successions to visual culture -- What is cultural about vision? What is formalism? -- The stylistic succession -- The ...

Visual illusions remind us that we are not passive decoders of reality but active interpreters. Our eyes capture information from the environment, but our brain can play tricks on us. Perception doesn ...