When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...

A small team of brain researchers at South China Normal University, working with a colleague from the University of New South Wales, has found that the visual processing parts of the brain light up in ...

When animals move through complex visual environments, the brain cannot afford to analyze every detail one by one. Instead, it rapidly extracts the overall structure of the scene—for example, the mean ...

Fostering visualization of any content (curricular or otherwise) by targeting and using the occipital lobe as the central point of processing the information is one of the strongest ways to help that ...

In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...

From duck-rabbit illusions to hidden object hunts, visual puzzles do more than entertain—they reveal how our minds work. These brainteasers tap into perception, reasoning, and that satisfying ‘aha!’ ...

Using vision intentionally helps your brain and body move toward goals more efficiently. Focusing visually on a target increases speed and reduces effort in goal pursuit tasks. Alternating visual ...

My last article focused, oddly enough…on focus—namely, how to help gifted students who are easily distracted by outside stimuli. Those of you with easily distracted students or children of your own ...