How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the
inner workings of the visual system. In The Visual World of Shadows, Roberto Casati and …

One key issue when conceiving the body as a multisensory object is how the cognitive
system integrates visible instances of the self and other bodies with one's own …

Clutter is something that is encountered in everyday life, from a messy desk to a crowded
street. Such clutter may interfere with our ability to search for objects in such environments …

The increasing sophistication of photo-editing software means that even amateurs can
create compelling doctored images. Yet recent research suggests that people's ability to …

Shadows, as all other objects that surround us, are incorporated into the body and extend
the body mediating perceptual information. The current study investigates the hypothesis …

We evaluated age-related variations in the influence of heterogeneous distracters during
feature target. Participants in three age groups—6-year-old children, 9-year-old children …

Background Cast shadows in visual scenes can have profound effects on visual perception.
Much as they are informative, they also constitute noise as they are salient features of the …

In the present study we examined whether the perception of depth from cast shadows is
dependent on visual awareness using continuous flash suppression (CFS). As a direct …

Success in visually searching for a small object or target in a natural scene depends on
many factors, including the spatial structure of the scene and the pattern of observers' eye …

Simple everyday tasks, such as visual search, require a visual system that is sensitive to
differences. Here we report how observers perceive changes in natural image stimuli, and …