psychology of perception

The academic discipline of psychology was developed largely in North America and Europe. Some would argue it's been remarkably successful in understanding what drives human behaviour and mental processes, which have long been thought to be universal. But in recent decades some researchers ...

As reported in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, when people perceive speech, they closely watch the form and motion of the lips. If either of those cues is missing, their ability to make subtle distinctions between vowel sounds suffers measurably. “The findings ...

Through a series of experiments at Brown and McGill University in Montreal reported in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Masapollo and colleagues found that when people perceive speech, they closely watch the form and motion of the lips. If either of those ...

The academic discipline of psychology was developed largely in North America and Europe. Some would argue it's been remarkably ... So what effect can culture really have on the fundamental aspects of our psyche, such as perception, cognition and personality? Let's take a look at the evidence so far.

"I am intrigued by human somatosensory (touch and body) perception and its utilization for positive psychological and cognitive effects in our daily lives," says Nakatani, who commenced his research on the Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC), Keio University, in April 2017. "I started studying touch modality 16 ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – U of A assistant professor of human development and family sciences Amanda Williams is conducting research to study how stories and public perception on success and failure impact young athletes, and if more focus on adolescent and emerging-adult development leads to ...

But perception may not be keeping up with reality. Nearly 30,000 people in the study thought middle age starts at 30. "I find it interesting that there's a ton of people who have skewed perceptions about aging -- mostly young adults," said William Chopik, assistant professor of psychology and principal ...

Anne Treisman was a psychologist whose research into human perception and attention helped explain how the mind – not the eye – serves as the true ... Feature integration theory “has been challenged over and over again, but it has stood the test of time,” says Sabine Kastner, a Princeton psychology ...

This clearly demonstrates how cultural differences can affect something as fundamental as memory – any theory describing it should take that into account. Subsequent studies have shown that cultural differences in thinking styles are pervasive in cognition – affecting memory, attention, perception, ...

A study led by Dr Christopher Watkins of Abertay's Division of Psychology, published today in Perception journal, revealed that the amount of makeup a woman is wearing can have a negative impact on perceptions of her leadership ability. Study participants were asked to view a series of images featuring ...