This is the fifth article in the Mind Matters series on the neuroscience behind visual illusions. Scientists did not invent the vast majority of visual illusions. Rather, they are the work of ...

Less is known about the parallel processing strategies that are used in the extrastriate visual cortex. However, there are strong indications that these areas use many of the same strategies that ...

A study led by scientists at Dartmouth College shows while faces of those we know and those we’ve just seen activate the same visual processing ... For example, hyperalignment could be used ...

Researchers have found for example, that one visual processing region may activate strongly in response to an image of a face whereas another may respond to a landscape. Scientists must rely ...

The idea that visual experience is important for numerical processing might generally be preferred because it’s easier to explain, says Kanjlia. “But that doesn’t mean that alternative ...