Two wrongs can make a right, at least in the world of visual perception and motor functioning, according to two University of Oregon (UO) brain scientists. In a two-experiment study, published in the ...

Evoked responses to the congruent and incongruent target words 'cheap' or 'expensive' in the price judgment task (A–C) and the semantic task (D). The graph shows responses to the target words ...

As a person ages, perception declines, accompanied by augmented brain activity. Learning and training may ameliorate age-related degradation of perception, but age-related brain changes cannot be ...

When pain strikes from multiple sources—such as a paper cut followed by contact with hot water—the experience can feel disproportionately intense. But is this agony merely additive, or does the brain ...

Researchers from UZH have discovered how the perception of meaning changes in the brain under the influence of LSD. The serotonin 2A receptors are responsible for altered perception. This finding will ...

The question of whether colors like 'red' and 'blue' appear the same to different people has long been debated in the philosophy and science of human perception. A study published on September 8, 2025 ...

Paying less attention to faces is one of the key markers of autism spectrum disorder. But while researchers have begun to uncover the brain network that supports processing of social stimuli such as ...

When we observe an hourglass, when we fix our gaze on the grains of sand falling, we have the feeling that time is flowing continuously. We think this has been the case since the birth of the world, ...

As we get older, we humans experience some decreases in function in multiple domains. But how much of these decreases are due to real decline and how much to disuse? And what can be done about it?

I called the first two years of my life after my brain was injured the honeymoon period. In this period, I believed absolutely in what I was told and hadn't yet fully grasped how catastrophic my ...