Embodied artificial intelligence (AI) systems are robotic agents that rely on machine learning algorithms to sense their ...

Audio cues can not only help us to recognize objects more quickly but can even alter our visual perception. That is, pair birdsong with a bird and we see a bird -- but replace that birdsong with a ...

The human visual system exhibits a remarkable ability to decipher the three-dimensional structure of the world from two-dimensional retinal images. Central to this process is the utilisation of shape ...

Neuroscientists in Germany have demonstrated that human visual perception and attention can be improved without training. In a new study, they report that the sense of vision can be lastingly changed ...

Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

Beverley Pickard-Jones received funding from the James Pantyfedwen Foundation in 2017. As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But while we can appreciate that others might hold ...