Using a laser range-finder, neurobiologists have scanned real-life scenes to gather millions of distance measurements to surfaces in each scene -- analyzing the mass of data to explain a series of ...

Mammals are good at figuring out which direction a sound is coming from, whether it's a predator breathing down our necks or a baby crying for its mother. But how we judge how far away that sound is ...

A study examines distance perception in bats. Many bat species use echolocation--emitting sound signals and analyzing the returning echoes--to assess their distance from an object. However, it is ...

Our perception of how large or small things are in the world is systematically influenced for how we perceive distance or depth. This is most famously shown by the Ponzo Illusion (discovered by Mario ...

Any walker or hiker can tell you that an uphill path is more challenging than a flat one. But does it literally look longer, too? A study in the May issue of Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics ...

Research by British scientists reveals that our tactile perception transcends the boundaries of immediate physical contact. This discovery challenges established conceptions about the limits of ...