Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...

Glass patterns have long served as a paradigmatic tool for unravelling the mechanisms underlying visual form perception and the integration of motion cues. These intricate stimuli, composed of ...

Research reveals why some images feel pleasing while others uncomfortable. The brain prefers visuals that cost less energy.

Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 367, No. 1598, Pattern perception and computational complexity (19 July 2012), pp. 2007-2022 (16 pages) Formal language theory has been extended ...

Sometimes when the music is really good and the sound is really loud and the pill is really potent, you can see what you hear. But that’s just brain tricks. This, however, is real and mesmerizing.

That child’s drawing of a house, tree, or person may represent more than an element of the refrigerator-as-art-gallery. It may predict a child’s intelligence later in life. A child’s intelligence at ...

These movements generate neural signals that allow bees to easily and efficiently identify predictable features of the world around them. This ability means bees demonstrate remarkable accuracy in ...