Sensory illusions reveal how the brain creates coherence when signals don’t align. In autism and ADHD, perception often ...

Robert Pellegrino, Ph.D., has joined the Texas A&M Department of Animal Science as an assistant professor of sensory science ...

Traditionally, perception and cognition have been considered distinct domains of psychological science. Perception was understood to be the raw data collector—our sensory touchpoint with the external ...

Our world is a rich tapestry of sensory information, constantly bombarding our nervous system with a vast array of stimuli.

When an animal takes notice of an approaching figure, it needs to determine what it is, and quickly. In nature, competition and survival dictate that it’s better to think fast—that is, for the brain ...

Your expectations shape and quicken your perceptions. A new model that explains the effect suggests it’s time to update theories about sensory processing. Imagine picking up a glass of what you think ...

If we cross a road with our smartphone in view, a car horn or engine noise will startle us. In everyday life we can easily combine information from different senses and shift our attention from one ...

There's a vast world around us that animals can perceive — but humans can't. Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Ed Yong uses the example of a dark room: Though it might seem that there would be ...

The semantic categorization task included two questions: 1. Love is light/heavy. 2. Love is soft/hard. The options were randomized and presented. The word “love” was replaced by “恋爱” “浪漫之爱” “男女之爱” ...

Mammootty revealed he temporarily lost his sense of smell and taste, highlighting how vital these senses are to nutrition, safety, and well-being. His experience has sparked awareness about anosmia ...