Stare at a dot and see what fascinating effects appear. Tommy Lee Jones and family release statement after daughter ...

Gestalt theory in design isn’t one of those rules we hear about. It is an insight into our psychophysical makeup and relationship with the environment. The brain is a pattern-seeking device. In a ...

Embodied artificial intelligence (AI) systems are robotic agents that rely on machine learning algorithms to sense their surroundings, plan their actions and execute them. A key aspect of these ...

New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists test the human mind. The work by Johns Hopkins University ...

1. In this multicenter randomized controlled trial, a 12-week personalized visual perceptual learning (VPL) program significantly improved visual field function in stroke patients with visual field ...

A team of scientists has identified areas of the brain that are activated when a person becomes aware of themself and their thoughts. This enigmatic process appears to be controlled by the thalamus, a ...

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

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A new 15-minute tool to screen stroke survivors for visual perception problems has been launched by researchers from Durham and Oxford universities. The free screening tool could make it easier for ...