Causal perception refers to the remarkable ability of the human visual system to infer causal relationships from dynamic interactions between objects. When witnessing events such as a ball being ...

The human brain can select relevant objects from a flood of information and edit out what is irrelevant. It also knows which parts belong to a whole. If, for example, we direct our attention to the ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

“Like a real Urchin, you can look at it, but it’s best not to touch it,” said director of the Masters of Architecture Program Prof. Caroline O’Donnell, on her new Arts Quad exhibit. O’Donnell created ...

Spending too much time looking at high heels may influence how a viewer perceives the gender of an androgynous face, according to new research. Spending too much time looking at high heels may ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It’s a well-established fact that humans learn a lot about the world from ...

Researchers have assessed the human perception of the size and weight of body parts, specifically the hand, comparing it to the perception of objects and concluded that it is different. In the case of ...

According to Newton’s law, weight is the product of an object's mass and gravity. But how does the brain interpret the weight of objects and body parts? For over a century, it has been known that an ...