Does it ever feel like the years just vanished overnight? You're not the only one. As we age, our perception of time changes.

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

Your brain might have a hidden neural layer that puts you in touch with the same “figures” during altered states of ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

There have been a lot of conflicting comments about the various videos showing the ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a ...

Psychological experiments have investigated conditions similar to those that existed during the Minnesota incident and could ...

Chances are you’ve encountered some version of the “Ebbinghaus illusion,” in which a central circle appears to be smaller when encircled by larger circles and seems larger when surrounded by smaller ...

New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists test the human mind. The work by Johns Hopkins University ...

Most intriguingly, psychologists in the 1960s had apparently discovered something remarkable about the illusion: only European and American urbanites fell for the trick. The illusion worked less well, ...

During her training in anthropology, Dorsa Amir, now at Duke University, became fascinated with the Müller-Lyer illusion. The illusion is simple: one long horizontal line is flanked by arrowheads on ...