New research suggests that the emotional content of a facial expression influences how well observers can predict social ...

The field of neural models of perception and learning has witnessed substantial progress in recent years, combining insights from computational neuroscience, cognitive psychology and artificial ...

Stress is part of our everyday lives - while some thrive on it, it makes others sick. But what does stress do to our senses? When we train them, we can sharpen our senses thereby improve our ...

Each person's perception is individually unique and subjective (Cytowic 2018.) Anesthesia is the phenomenon of no sensation. Synesthesia is the phenomenon of multiple sensations. Human senses include ...

A collaboration between SISSA’s Physics and Neuroscience groups has taken a step forward in understanding how memories are stored and retrieved in the brain. The study, recently published in Neuron, ...

Timothy Vickery, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. The cognitive neuroscientist is primarily interested in visual ...

People perceive colors categorically. But what is the role of the environment (or nature)--specifically, language--in color perception? The effects of language on the way people categorize and ...

Each person's perception is individually unique and subjective (Cytowic 2018.) Anesthesia is the phenomenon of no sensation. Synesthesia is the phenomenon of multiple sensations. Human senses include ...

In The Dew Breaker by Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat,a young immigrant, struggling with her sense of displacement, uses the food and spices of her Haitian childhood as a perceptual ...

Researchers have developed a novel framework, termed PDJA (Perception–Decision Joint Attack), that leverages artificial ...