perception

Your brain isn’t just looking – it’s predicting. Here’s why that means you can stare straight at something and still not see it.

Attention is typically regarded as a modulatory process that amplifies or suppresses existing sensory input. Here we tested whether inward-directed (somatic) attention can instead generate bodily sensations. In a floatation-based sensory deprivation paradigm (restricted environmental stimulation), 100 healthy adults were assigned to three groups: focused somatic attention with a light tactile anc…

Our minds evolved to survive. But their inner workings have astonishing—and sometimes disturbing—consequences for everyday life.

How does the brain make sense of what we see, hear, and feel--and transform these separate signals into a coherent perception of the world?

Stroboscopic visual training (SVT) is a perceptual-cognitive training paradigm that uses liquid-crystal eyewear to alternate between transparent and opaque states during sport-specific motor tasks, creating repeated cycles of vision and occlusion. By intermittently removing visual feedback, SVT compels the central nervous system to sustain internal predictions of moving targets rather than passiv…

Spoonerisms are among the most well-known speech errors, and for linguists and psychologists they offer a glimpse into how our brains produce speech

In noisy environments, organisms differentiate sounds they want to detect from interfering noise to improve their perception of target sounds.

Tennis players can return high-speed balls using a combination of reaction and predicting the future

Everyone’s perception of time is unique. It is a subjective experience shaped by factors such as age, emotions, memory and environmental contexts. And it may also be influenced by background noise, as scientists have demonstrated in a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. Previous research has shown that approaching noise can stretch our perception […]

Wadle, Douglas (2026) Information, Function, and Representation in Perceptual Processing. [Preprint]

Study reveals what people really see when they read lips LAWRENCE — New research from the University of Kansas uses network science to determine why people make mistakes when lip reading. Michael Vitevitch, professor of speech-language-hearing at KU, and his co-authors created a visual map of around 20,000 words in English, hoping to better grasp why some words are more difficult to lip-read than…

A new study suggests Instagram may shape not just how people judge their looks but how their brains decide what counts as their own face