The ability to recognize faces is a complex neurocognitive skill with important social implications. The disorder, which, according to some estimates, affects more than 2 percent of the population, ...

A quick and easily administered test that measures visual perception can accurately distinguish mild to moderate dementia associated with Lewy body disease (LBD) from dementia associated with ...

A new screening tool for visual perception difficulties after stroke that takes just 15 minutes to complete could help improve diagnosis of visual perception problems common in stroke survivors, new ...

Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new Yale study finds evidence that they might. When completing a visual perception task, in which participants had to ...

The Rorschach Inkblot Test (RIT) was developed in 1921 by Swiss Psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. While working in an inpatient psychiatric hospital, Rorschach experimented with upwards of 40 inkblots.

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that affects around 1% of the world's population. Researchers have identified a deficit in contrast perception in people with schizophrenia. According to a ...

Rivermead Perceptual Assessment Battery; an assessment test for deficits in visual perception following a stroke or head injury, based on patients between 17 and 69 years old; invented by Whiting, ...

A new study led by scientists at the Perception Dynamics Institute and the University of California San Diego demonstrates that a specific visual training program significantly outperforms standard ...