When I was in high school, my friend switched sodas on me one day. I thought I was taking a swig of Coca Cola, but he had replaced it with cream soda. I immediately spit it out, thinking it tasted ...

Precisely estimating event timing is essential for survival, yet temporal distortions are ubiquitous in our daily sensory experience. Here, we tested whether the relative position, duration, and ...

Explanations such as ‘hallucinations are caused by overactive dopamine receptors’ are unsatisfactory because they leave an explanatory gap between the mental and the physical. How can dopamine cause a ...

Researchers examined decades of data to create a unifying theory to explain biases in perception. Photo-Illustration: Martha Morales/The University of Texas at Austin How humans perceive the world ...

“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” —from Seduction of the Minotaur, by Anaïs Nin (1961) On the 10th of April 2019 Pope Francis, President Salva Kiir of South Sudan and former ...

We think of people with autism as having a deficit in cognitive processing--but their distractibility could also result from having enhanced perceptual capabilities WHEN Pulitzer Prize–winning music ...

There is evidence that nonhuman animals perceive the world, and how it unfolds in time, differently from humans and from each ...