This news release is available in Japanese. A group of researchers at Osaka University found that neurons in the monkey visual cortical area V4*1, one of the areas in the visual cortex, calculate the ...

Why is an object’s size perceived the same regardless of changes in distance? A group of researchers at Osaka University found that neurons in the monkey visual cortical area V4*1, one of the areas in ...

Object recognition means calling a chair a chair, despite variations in style, viewpoint, rendering and surrounding clutter. Crowding is a breakdown of object recognition. This is an empirical review ...

The brain organizes objects based on their physical size, with a specific region of the brain reserved for recognizing large objects and another reserved for small objects, according to a new article.

Discover how the body size effect influences our perception of object size and distance in a unique virtual reality setup. Figure 1. Experimental set-up.This figure displays the main experimental ...