One scientist calls them “everyday hallucinations” to describe experiences like believing you hear your name called while you ...

The way you think about, interpret or understand someone is unique to you. Your perception today is determined by your past experiences, values, beliefs, and personality. Once you get used to the same ...

A new study published in the Journal of Cognition provides evidence that what we know influences what we hear. Researchers found that when people listened to pairs of words and nonsense words spoken ...

Your brain becomes comfortable with this reversed image, so when you see a photo, it appears jarring and unfamiliar.

How is it that two people can see the same thing and have a completely different understanding of what happened? Two leaders can look at the same numbers, hear the same news or face the same challenge ...

As your thoughts run uncontrollably, your heartbeat starts to race and your breathing becomes heavy. Uneasiness is followed by fear, and then without warning, panic begins to set in. Suddenly you feel ...

Reality isn't what you think it is. Everyday experience suggests that our senses inform us about what’s going on in the world around us. But recent advances in cognitive neuroscience suggest that we ...

Over the weekend, I met up with a friend for lunch. It would be an hour before he arrived. Thinking that I had enough time to clean the kitchen and take a shower, I suddenly realized I was running ...

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When you look at two objects close to you such as two leaves, it's easy to tell them apart but when they are farther away from you, they become difficult to distinguish. The two objects become ...

In a discovery that could turn science on its head, researchers now find that you are a better judge of how objects fall when you are upright than when you lie on your side. Our senses are known to ...