Think you can trust your eyes? Think again. What feels undeniable at first glance is sometimes a surprise, an illusion, or an ...

They say “never meet your heroes…” And if you’ve spent any time online lately, you’ll see why that advice keeps coming up. In ...

A deep dive into synaesthesia reveals the neurological theories behind why some people "see" music and "taste" words.

Taking all this together, the spontaneous activity reshaping hypothesis – our new theory that imagination carves images out ...

Stress may be in the mind of the beholder, according to one well-known theory, but for the highly neurotic, new research ...

Beauty has many facets. Research shows there are many biological, psychological, cultural and social aspects that influence how beauty and attractiveness are perceived. Researchers now believe that ...

New research from the University of Houston reveals that distraction breaks memory by interrupting the brain's central ...

Behavioral tests, fMRI and stimulus-feature analyses in macaques show that action categorization relies on spatiotemporal features distributed across a hierarchy, with behavior-aligned representations ...

The smaller of two equally weighted objects is judged to be heavier when lifted. Here we disproved a leading hypothesis that this size–weight illusion is caused by a mismatch between predicted and ...

This is when unrelated species evolve to have functionally similar features. All bats and birds "converged" with their ability to fly in response to environmental stimuli and biological goals. The arm ...

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. Yarilet Perez is an experienced multimedia journalist and fact-checker with a Master of ...