Perceptual learning and visual cognition constitute an interdisciplinary field that investigates the brain’s remarkable capacity to refine visual processing through experience. By examining how ...

Timothy Vickery, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. The cognitive neuroscientist is primarily interested in visual ...

Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. She is a cognitive neuroscientist interested in the ...

A new study led by scientists at the Perception Dynamics Institute and the University of California San Diego demonstrates that a specific visual training program significantly outperforms standard ...

Humans have an uncanny ability to recognize faces. Decades of research on the topic have revealed how good we are at recognizing faces across changes in viewpoint, expression, even age. We learn to ...

In a recent review published in Brain Sciences, researchers reviewed existing data on visual impairments among Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. Parkinson's disease (PD), a widely prevalent ...

Dave's research focuses on human perception (e.g., visual cognition) and memory from a broad-based, computational perspective. To shed light on these basic cognitive processes, he finds converging ...

A bag of chips here, a flavored yogurt there, a frozen meal on a busy night. For many adults over 40, ultra-processed foods ...

The ability of developing complex internal representations of the environment is considered a crucial antecedent to the emergence of humans’ higher cognitive functions. Yet it is an open question ...

For human beings, vision is the most important sensory system. Therefore our brains do more elaborate processing of visual information than for any other sensory modality. This is illustrated by the ...