A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to produce vivid hallucinations, even when a person’s eyes are closed. Studies ...

UNSW Sydney and Macquarie University psychology researchers have written an article warning that psychedelic therapies may switch on visual mental imagery in people with aphantasia and could raise the ...

A new study suggests that virtual reality experiences designed to mimic psychedelic visual effects could safely boost creativity and flexibility in thinking -- without the use of drugs. Researchers ...

A recent study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that individuals who experience persistent visual ...

When Frank Stella painted "Double Scramble," a painting of a pair of concentric squares from 1968 that's in the San Antonio Museum of Art's permanent collection, he tried to minimize the optic mixing ...