One fascinating example of this is the perception of a phenomenon known as a sunspin, an illusory movement experienced when focusing on a repeating pattern or texture. This isn’t a true motion, but ...

Faced with images that break the expected pattern, like a do not enter sign where a stop sign is expected, how does the brain react and learn compared to being shown images which match what was ...

This figure depicts how that same visual patterns that elicit a specific type of brainwave (gamma oscillation) in healthy visual cortex can also trigger seizures in patients with photosensitive ...

Technical traders have long searched for distinctive shapes in stock-price charts in order to predict returns. As artificial intelligence systems become better and better at recognizing visual ...

For more than 30 years, psychophysical studies of visual pattern discrimination have paralleled research on the neurophysiological response properties of neurons in the visual cortex 1,2. The ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...

Using eye-tracking methods, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that toddlers with autism spend significantly more time visually examining dynamic ...