A new study led by Dr. Jiang Yi from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the first ...

Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain mapped hundreds of images (far left) by eye tracking (center left), "meaning" (center right) and salience or outstanding features (far left).

Goals are represented in prefrontal cortex and modulate sensory processing in visual cortex. A new study combines TMS, fMRI and EEG to understand how feedback improves retention of behaviorally ...

Consciousness—the subjective awareness of various things such as visual objects, events, thoughts, and emotions—is of interest to many scholars including theologists, philosophers, and psychologists.

To a neuroscientist, the trouble with cocktail parties is not that we do not love cocktails or parties (many neuroscientists do). Instead what we call “the cocktail party problem” is the mystery of ...

Researchers at Tohoku University have revealed multiple functions of visual attention, the process of selecting important information from retinal images. Studies of visual attention discovered an ...

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes—think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke—is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it all the time, but little is ...

Selective attention involves concentrating on one main channel of information and not others – for example, focusing on the sentences in this blog post and not on the soles of your feet in your shoes ...

One of the most common human gestures, the pointing finger, appears frequently in Old Master paintings as a guiding cue.