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 ...

Artificial stimulation of neurons in high-level visual cortical areas induces hallucinatory percepts 1,2,3,4, the experience of complex visuals in the absence of corresponding retinal stimulation.

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 ...

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 ...

As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But while we can appreciate that others might hold different opinions of objects we see, not many people know that factors beyond our ...