Need to find a needle? Make the haystack disappear by perceptual adaptation

Our perception adapts to stimuli whenever they remain invariant. This adaptation can have intriguing consequences. Recent research suggests that by adapting to a noisy background, detection of visual targets can be facilitated. This effect can have important consequences for situations such as mammography in which visual target detection is crucial.
Source: Psychonomic Society News - Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news