Look at your surroundings. With your eyes straight ahead, pay attention the colors in your peripheral vision. Did you know that your brain is filling in much of the color that you “see”? It is. A new ...

Color awareness has long been a puzzle for researchers in neuroscience and psychology, who debate over how much color observers really perceive. A study from Dartmouth in collaboration with Amherst ...

When you think of vision trouble, you might look at the issue head-on—literally. Determining how well you can see right in front of you is often the gauge for whether or not it’s time for a ...

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that most people only see color in the dead center of their visual field. 5 Ways To Avoid Blind Spots In Your Decision Making ...

As a child, Bill Bradley, U.S. senator from New Jersey and former New York Knicks star forward, would walk down the streets of his hometown, keeping his eyes focused straight ahead while trying to ...

A person with peripheral vision loss has difficulty seeing things above, below, or at the side without turning their head. This type of vision loss is also known as tunnel vision. Tunnel vision can ...

Peripheral vision enables humans to see shapes that aren't directly in our line of sight, albeit with less detail. This ability expands our field of vision and can be helpful in many situations, such ...

During periods of stress, the sympathetic nervous system automatically narrows the range of perceptual inputs to emphasize central vision. This perceptual narrowing is an evolutionary skill that was ...