This week’s philosophical question: Which is more important — reality or perception? I pose this because a federal judge in Mississippi has ruled in favor of restaurant and seafood seller defendants ...

A single phrase can follow you for a lifetime. For me, it was this: Perception is reality. It was one of the first lessons drilled into me during Plebe Summer at the U.S. Naval Academy. It felt like a ...

Perception is your reality, but not necessarily THE reality! Or, said differently: What we believe to be true isn’t always the truth. On June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth), the last of the slaves in the USA ...

Do you feel like time is slipping through your fingers as you age? Have you ever been in a situation where time seems to stand still? The enigma of time perception has been a subject of interest for ...

Hallucinations are more common than we think, and they may be an underlying mechanism for how our brains experience the world. One scientist calls them “everyday hallucinations” to describe ...

Visual shape processing and perception constitute a central pillar in understanding how the human brain interprets complex visual stimuli. Research in this field has revealed a multifaceted framework ...

PhD Candidate, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne Most of the time, our brains are very good at blending together input from all our senses into a seamless, unified ...