The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 106, No. 2 (Summer, 1993), pp. 191-210 (20 pages) Inspection time (IT) indexes the ability to discriminate between test stimuli under conditions of varied and ...

A fundamental goal in neuroscience is to understand how perception arises from the activity of neurons in the brain 1. This has been explored most extensively for visual motion perception in monkeys.

Retrograde motion, typically observed in outer planets, is an apparent westward movement resulting from Earth's faster orbital speed overtaking those planets. This apparent reversal of direction is ...

This is the fourth article in the Mind Matters series on the neuroscience behind visual illusions. Benjamin Franklin once said, “Never confuse motion with action.” But if motion is not action, then ...

In 350 BC, Aristotle reported seeing illusory movement after staring at a constantly moving stimulus. Later coined the "waterfall illusion," scientists are still investigating the properties of motion ...