Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...

Technical traders have long searched for distinctive shapes in stock-price charts in order to predict returns. As artificial intelligence systems become better and better at recognizing visual ...

A new discovery of how bees use their flight movements to facilitate remarkably accurate learning and recognition of complex visual patterns could mark a major change in how next-generation AI is ...

In this set of 28 visual patterns, you’ll face challenges inspired by the classic Raven’s Progressive Matrices® IQ test, a nonverbal ability test designed to measure abstract reasoning and ...

Researchers discovered that bees use flight movements to sharpen brain signals, enabling them to recognize patterns with remarkable accuracy. A digital model of their brain shows that this ...

A new study has mapped the visual patterns people use when judging bodies, finding that attention is most concentrated on the chest and torso. Researchers used eye-tracking to show that these gaze ...

Scientists have shown for the first time that there is a strong correlation between the complex patterns on male darters and their highly-variable environments. The findings support and expand upon ...

When you look at clouds, tree bark, or the front of a car, do you sometimes see a face staring back at you? That’s “face pareidolia” and it is a perfectly normal illusion where our brains spot faces ...

As a child, painter Paul Klee was fascinated by the vivid faces he saw in the swirly surfaces of the marble-topped tables in his uncle’s restaurant. As a pupil in school, the artist Salvador Dalí ...