Vision researchers have disproved a long-standing theory of how the human vision system processes images, using computational models and human experiments. The findings could have implications for the ...

Abraham Moles's newly translated Information Theory and Esthetic Perception is a book with one interesting idea, which emerges, crablike, from the murky burrow of Chapter Five. The idea is that ...

In previous posts on The Forensic View, we have seen that eyewitness memories can be reconfigured in the direction of a witness's personal beliefs (Bartlett, 1932; Loftus, 1979; Sharps, 2022). This ...

In 1834, the German physiologist Ernst Weber (pictured above) carried out a series of experiments to determine the limits of sensory perception. He gave a blindfolded man a mass to hold and gradually ...