The way you think about, interpret or understand someone is unique to you. Your perception today is determined by your past experiences, values, beliefs, and personality. Once you get used to the same ...

Have you ever noticed patterns in your own behavior that you cannot seem to shake? Have you ever held an attitude toward something and known exactly what caused you to have it? If the answer is yes, ...

A new study published in Psychophysiology suggests that the length of our heartbeat affects our perception of time more than previously thought. Much of the prior work on how we perceive time centered ...

A new study published in the Journal of Cognition provides evidence that what we know influences what we hear. Researchers found that when people listened to pairs of words and nonsense words spoken ...

If you’re a long-term employee, it’s not only frustrating when your colleagues have an outdated perception of you—it can stymie your professional growth. How can you align your reputation with your ...

As we get older, we humans experience some decreases in function in multiple domains. But how much of these decreases are due to real decline and how much to disuse? And what can be done about it?

Perception generally feels effortless. If you hear a bird chirping and look out the window, it hardly feels like your brain has done anything at all when you recognize that chirping critter on your ...

When you look at two objects close to you such as two leaves, it's easy to tell them apart but when they are farther away from you, they become difficult to distinguish. The two objects become ...

There are some universal truths about time. There are sixty seconds in a minute. There are 365 days in a year (except for leap years that have 366, of course). There are 24 hours in every day. Try as ...