Vision is not perfect. When grating patterns are used as resolution targets, the highest spatial frequency resolvable by humans is about 50 cycles per degree of angle subtended at the observer's eye 7 ...

Early visual areas represent visual information through retinotopic feature maps. The discovery in the late 1970s of cells in inferotemporal (IT) cortex selective for specific complex objects 1 ...

Selective perception describes the phenomenon of only seeing what we want to see. This bias is most glaring when a large group of people see the same events – like a television show. Have you ever ...

In 1954, a study published by Princeton and Dartmouth researchers asked their students to watch a recording of a football game between the two schools and count infractions. The Princeton students ...