What is the human imagination? What is this amazing ability, which most of us have, that allows us to travel through space and time, testing out different virtual worlds, objects, foods, fears and ...

A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled. Researchers at TUM have succeeded in observing the visual information flow ...

A well-placed plot twist can make viewers watch a film a second time, as it can recontextualize the entire storyline. For instance, a surprising turning point that reveals that the culprit in a ...

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 ...

Whether we're staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in Trieste, published in PLOS Computational Biology. The research shows that, ...