University of Rochester researchers published a study in eLife in which they examined a novel neural mechanism involved in causal inference as the brain detects another object in motion during ...

Researchers found that people make much more accurate estimates when they have access to information about both the speed of a moving object and the timing of its rhythmic patterns. Catching a ...

Humans can visually perceive the motion of a small object better than that of a large one. By contrast, according to a study reported in the journal Current Biology on September 5, babies under 6 ...

The ability to perceive and discern weight is active from birth 1 and continues to develop with age 2. A robust weight perception usually requires the combination of somatosensory and visual ...

When we stand in a stationary train and observe a train on an adjacent track depart, we often experience an illusory percept that our own train has moved. Such experiences remind us that (1) our brain ...

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. As a high school student, I learned 2 important things in my physics class: the first was that I was never ...

Since the visual processing centres of her brain went dark after a stroke, a Scottish woman has been unable to see objects. However, she has developed the remarkable ability to see objects in motion, ...

With no way of generating resistive force feedback with today’s VR motion controllers, how can we make users feel and behave as though virtual objects have varying weights? Creative agency B-Reel ...

Catching a bouncing ball or hitting a ball with a racket requires estimating when the ball will arrive. Neuroscientists have long thought that the brain does this by calculating the speed of the ...