Research

News from the original LMU Newsroom: Constant training improves the capacities of human perception. Just as years of practice hone the senses of smell and…

Feng Meng, can the ability to see a flea as large as a wheel be transferred? Our team member Dr. Lukasz Grzeczkowski has recently revealed in…

Ever notice how our perception can shift when a reference is introduced? Consider the Ebbinghaus illusion—depending on the surrounding disks, a central disk can appear…

Research has found that emotion-associated features, such as color, can influence our attention. However, what has been neglected is individuals may have their own color-valence…

Our subjective sense of time can be influenced by different contexts, like the spacing between sample intervals and how often they appear (sample frequency). Here,…

While engaged in a task, it’s easy for our flow to be disrupted by salient distractors. Yet, if you know the target, shielding yourself from…

Despite the crucial role of complex temporal sequences, such as speech and music, in our everyday lives, our ability to acquire and reproduce these patterns…

It is possible to improve attentional guidance by learning statistical regularities of the static spatial layout of the target and distractors within the search display.…

When a salient distractor frequently appears in one specific location, it causes less interference over time, known as the distractor-location probability cueing effect based on…

Redundant information is useful for facilitating search. However, it remains controversial whether our brain integrates the features from different senses in the same way it…