perception

A Chinese mushroom causes hallucinations of tiny people within real environmental backgrounds. This phenomenon raises questions about perception, memory, and reality.

Scientific Reports, Published online: 04 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-67289-0 Perception aware priority augmentation for age based scheduling in capacity limited cognitive radar networks

Auditory scene analysis benefits from spatial separation of the sound sources to be disentangled. Studies characterizing the ability to localize sound sources have revealed that spatial ambiguities can be resolved by slightly moving the head. This implies that the auditory system must take into account how head movements displace the sensors (ears) relative to the sound source, in order to separa…

IntroductionMagic, understood as a set of effects designed to produce experiences of impossibility, offers a distinctive methodological potential for cognitive science because it makes it possible to manipulate, with ecological validity, processes such as attention, perception, reasoning, and memory. Despite increasing research interest over the last two decades, the available evidence has not be…

Researchers found that the distance the eye travels during a rapid gaze shift changes post-saccadic visual sensitivity by altering the spatial-frequency information carried by retinal luminance transients. Larger saccades preferentially enhanced lower-frequency, coarser visual information, while very small saccades could increase the relative visibility of finer, higher-frequency information.

Nature Communications, Published online: 30 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-76503-6 People explore the visual world through rapid eye movements called saccades. Here, the authors show that the size of each saccade determines which level of spatial detail becomes most visible after the movement.

In Sensory Individuals: Unimodal and Multimodal Perspectives. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 371-386. 2023Faces are among the most studied and well-understood visual objects. They seem to be perceived, tracked, and recognized in vision through dedicated unisensory mechanisms. Some of these areas and mechanisms have been extensively studied, especially the Fusiform Face Area (FFA). For t…

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