His beautiful coffee table book, Patterns in Nature: Why The Natural World Looks The Way It Does (University of Chicago Press, 2017), takes a fascinating and in-depth look into why and how natural ...

Generalization is a cognitive ability that allows similar stimuli along a given dimension to be treated as equivalents1,2,3. Insects exhibit high levels of visual generalization4,5,6. Honeybees ...

A new discovery of how bees use their flight movements to facilitate remarkably accurate learning and recognition of complex ...

His beautiful coffee table book, Patterns in Nature: Why The Natural World Looks The Way It Does (University of Chicago Press, 2017), takes a fascinating and in-depth look into why and how natural ...

But Croll stresses that there are multiple ways to create structures in nature, even things that at first glance don’t look like they’ll be good for patterns at all. An example is a type of ...

Pleasing patterns, in art and in nature. ... But he spent 10 years consciously refining his pouring technique to increase the visual complexity of these fractal patterns.

The Science Behind Nature’s Patterns. A new book explores the physical and chemical reasons behind incredible visual structures in the living and non-living world ...

What I find fascinating about the interrelation between cognitive fluctuations, mind wandering, and fractal patterns in art and nature is that they tend to be good for us in a uniquely playful way.

Science and nature journalist Philip Ball looks below the surface at how and why certain forms appear in nature. Patterns in Nature explores world's chaotic beauty Skip to main content ...

Pattern-motion adaptation produced strong modulations of the fMRI responses in extrastriate visual area MT+ (Fig. 2a, solid trace).This area of the human brain is believed to be homologous to ...

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 ...