Perception

a, Schematic of the human visual-perception process: visual perception is one of the vital human senses where the…

"There is no consistent evidence that perceiving climate change as psychologically distant hinders climate action, with studies reporting mixed results," write the authors, led by Dr. Anne…

A recent study conducted at the University of Turku in Finland shows that different people have similar brain activity when perceiving social situations. Researchers discovered an extensive…

Some describe actor Paul Rudd as Hollywood’s nicest celebrity, and some call him an actor who is ageing in reverse. But he does not let the shadow of his public persona enter his personal…

Humans perceive five basic taste sensations: sweet, umami, bitter, salty, and sour. Specific foods trigger taste recognition of these sensations through the activation of different receptors…

I’ve never had a lucid dream, but I’d love to start. Every night my eyes grow weary and my passive consciousness arrives in that ethereal realm without a lick of agency. I saw Inception in a…

How long is the present? The answer, Cornell University researchers suggest in a new study, depends on your heart. They found that our momentary perception of time is not continuous but may…

Serial dependence is a bias affecting perceptual experience, in which what you currently perceive tends to be biased toward what you have perceived immediately before. This phenomenon has…

Artificial intelligence algorithms are the wave of the future. They are being introduced into almost every aspect of our lives including the automatic estimation of age from a person's face,…

The brain's cerebral cortex produces perception based on the sensory information it's fed through a region called the thalamus. "How the thalamus communicates with the cortex in a…