" Our test, called the Imagination Perception Battery (BIP), is designed to assess the link between perception and mental imagery through the different visual qualities that enable a scene to be ...

Thanks to 7T fMRI, researchers from Paris Brain Institute and NeuroSpin, the CEA's neuroimaging center, are exploring the neural substrate of visual imagery at very high resolution for the first time.

Spatial attention enhances the processing of specific regions within a visual scene as people view their surroundings, much ...

Researchers have examined viewer responses to images of distressing and neutrally decorated masks and whether personal life history, particularly past experiences of trauma and difficulty, affected ...

In a workshop called “Writing from the Senses,” novelist Janet Fitch taught us to how to see light (Fitch 2020). To describe a scene visually, so that readers can imagine it, a writer needs to think ...

Some individuals experience a lack of any imagery in the mind's eye. As you read this, take a quick look around and pick an object that catches your eye. Give it a good look. Stare at it for a while.

The scientific literature considers music either as an abstract stimulus, devoid of explicit meaning, or a universal language. Music listening rarely involves exclusive focus on the sounds themselves.

People perceive the world differently. Some of these differences are well-known. I am short-sighted. My sister is tone-deaf. And my uncle is colour blind. But beyond these familiar differences, ...

The human visual system is a dominant part of the brain’s processes and navigation of the world. To better understand an aspect of this system, researchers from Drexel University’s College of Nursing ...