Human-level performance. Human-level accuracy. Those are terms you hear a lot from companies developing artificial intelligence systems, whether it’s facial recognition, object detection, or question ...

When they taught together at Harvard in the late 1990s, psychologist Daniel Simons and his student Christopher Chabris got an idea for a new experiment testing how the brain processes visual ...

Machine perception is the capability of a computer to take in and process sensory information in a way that’s similar to how humans perceive the world. It may rely on sensors that mimic common human ...

Studies by an international research team have revealed how the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin, signaling at sub-second speed in the human brain, appear to integrate and shape how people ...

A recent study shows that different people have similar brain activity when perceiving social situations. Researchers discovered an extensive neural network in the human brain that effectively ...

Human echolocation refers to the remarkable ability of some individuals to utilise self-generated sounds – typically mouth clicks – and interpret the returning echoes to derive detailed spatial ...

The study of perception and affordance in human action examines how individuals interpret environmental cues to determine available actions and adjust their motor responses accordingly. This field ...

WASHINGTON — Every student of introductory psychology has seen figure-ground pictures, those ambiguous illustrations that demonstrate the flexibility of human perception. Is it a light goblet or two ...