Modern warfare targets perception, using psyops, disinformation, influencers, data profiling, and emerging neurotechnology to ...

A new study reveals that your heart rate slows down more when you make a visual mistake than when you see things correctly. This suggests our bodies physically react to perceptual errors in real-time.

Experiments on Drosophila show that an evolutionarily conserved photoreceptor that senses light outside of the retina can regulate responses to direct visual cues.

Understanding attention and perception is essential to preventing tragedy. If we can identify the mechanisms behind a ...

Specific rhythms of flickering light can synchronise brain activity, offering clues about perception and possible future ...

Funmilayo Adekanye is one of the leading costume designers in Nollywood today. With background in psychology, she approaches costume design as behavioral storytelling. She has worked on several ...

People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

A growing body of peer-reviewed research suggests that developing serious birdwatching skills does more than sharpen the ability to tell a warbler from a wren. Studies published across neuroscience, ...

Grocery stores are carefully engineered spaces. Here’s how layouts quietly influence spending more than shoppers realize.

I first encountered the McGurk effect in a neuroscience class. My professor played a video of a person moving their lips as if saying “ga,” while the audio track played “ba.” Most students heard ...

Critical thinking is an essential skill for students to develop given the modern environment of misinformation and disinformation. The ability to evaluate information validity is highly valued by both ...