Chances are, you spend a lot of time staring at screens. You look at a lot of pictures and watch a lot of videos. These visual experiences are so vivid that it doesn’t seem that much different than ...

Object-based attention describes the cognitive mechanism by which visual processing is preferentially allocated to entire objects rather than isolated spatial locations. This form of attentional ...

A Dartmouth research group has found a new and unexpected way our attention can be grabbed – by grabbable objects. Their study, which appears in the March 17 advance online issue of Nature ...

The visual system relies on several heuristics to direct attention to important locations and objects. One of these mechanisms directs attention to sudden changes in the environment. Although a ...

Does having the potential to act upon an object have a unique influence on behavior and brain responses to the object? That is the question Jacqueline Snow, assistant professor of psychology at the ...

A stop sign at an intersection appears to be larger than a parked car across the street. Is our brain playing tricks on us? Researchers at the George Washington University gained important insights ...

Does having the potential to act upon an object have a unique influence on behavior and brain responses to the object? That is the question researchers set out to answer in a new report. Does having ...