A new study examined the mechanisms of the Flashed Face Distortion Effect, finding that the effect is greatly diminished when ...

In our lifetimes, we encounter hundreds of thousands of faces. Each person's unique exposure to faces largely determines their "face space"—a model of how we encode, perceive, and remember the faces ...

That blurry road sign you blamed on fog? The occasional floaters that drift across your field of vision? Those random flashes of light you see sometimes? Your eyes might be trying to tell you ...

It sounds like the stuff of horror films — but for people who are afflicted with a rare disorder, it’s a terrifying reality. A condition called prosopometamorphopsia (PMO) causes facial features to ...

* Prosopometamorphopsia causes dramatic distortions in facial features due to disruptions in brain regions controlling visual processing * The condition is extremely rare and can result from //brain ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has three stages: early, intermediate, and late stage. Vision loss usually happens in the last stage of AMD. However, not everyone with AMD progresses through ...