Visual attention and perception represent central processes in human cognition, enabling the selective processing of relevant visual input while filtering extraneous information. This capacity ...

Most intriguingly, psychologists in the 1960s had apparently discovered something remarkable about the illusion: only European and American urbanites fell for the trick. The illusion worked less well, ...

There’s a famous selective attention experiment created by University of Illinois psychology professor Dr. Daniel Simons. It has nothing to do with boxing—yet its implications may have everything to ...

For more than a century, scientists have understood that three factors control pupil size: light, focus distance, and ...

Citations: DeWall, C., Jon Maner, D. Rouby. 2009. Social exclusion and early-stage interpersonal perception: Selective Attention to signs of acceptance. Journal of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract According to the received view in the philosophical literature on pictorial perception, when perceiving an object in a picture, we perceive ...

A running controversy among scientists studying visual perception centers on the neural basis for our powers to pick out figure from background. Look, for instance, at Edgar Rubin's famous image at ...