What is the human imagination? What is this amazing ability, which most of us have, that allows us to travel through space and time, testing out different virtual worlds, objects, foods, fears and ...

A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled. Researchers at TUM have succeeded in observing the visual information flow ...

Artificial stimulation of neurons in high-level visual cortical areas induces hallucinatory percepts 1,2,3,4, the experience of complex visuals in the absence of corresponding retinal stimulation.

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 ...