Our visual perception of the world is often thought of as relatively stable. However, like all of our cognitive functions, visual processing is shaped by our experiences. During both development and ...

Background There are limited treatment options to improve vision in patients with infantile nystagmus. We aimed to examine ...

Cognitive penetration of perception, broadly understood, is the influence that the cognitive system has on a perceptual system (e.g., visual, auditory, haptic). The paper shows a form of cognitive ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A degraded, black-and-white image of an object, which appears meaningless on first presentation, is easily identified after a single exposure ...

Which sleep stage is most important for learning: REM or non-REM? Does sleep improve learning by enhancing skills while people snooze, or by cementing those skills in the brain so that they're less ...

Harriet Dempsey-Jones does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

As a person ages, perception declines, accompanied by augmented brain activity. Learning and training may ameliorate age-related degradation of perception, but age-related brain changes cannot be ...

Stress is part of our everyday lives. While some thrive on it, it makes others sick. But what does stress do to our senses? Stress is part of our everyday lives -- while some thrive on it, it makes ...

In The Dew Breaker by Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat,a young immigrant, struggling with her sense of displacement, uses the food and spices of her Haitian childhood as a perceptual ...

Common wisdom says that you learn better if you study or practice over a period of time, with breaks between study periods, rather than trying to cram everything into a marathon session. New research ...