A popular online challenge tests your visual acuity by asking you to find a single '9' hidden among 150 '7's in under 12 seconds. This seemingly simpl ...

The fly Drosophila melanogaster can discriminate and remember visual landmarks. It analyses selected parts of its visual environment according to a small number of pattern parameters such as size, ...

Optical illusions, especially those with hidden objects, test how quickly and efficiently your brain can analyse visual information. Many illusions rely on our brain's ability to recognise patterns.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Effectively mimicking the unmatched visual capacities of the human brain while operating within stringent energy constraints poses a formidable challenge for artificial ...

The study examined visual recognition of bigrams, each formed from a pair of 'random' dot patterns, as a function of stimulus offset asynchrony and duration. The results replicate and extend those of ...

When it comes to navigating their surroundings, machines have a natural disadvantage compared to humans. To help hone the ...