A new optical illusion excellently illustrates just how finicky our eyes are when it comes to perceiving colors.

Latonia Taliaferro-Smith working with students in the Oxford Science Building. As we age, the number of full circle moments increases. This weekend, I had one of them. The East Suburban Atlanta ...

Past research has suggested that people's cultural differences may result in differences in basic visual perception. New research found no evidence that these differences play a significant role in ...

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Hallucinations are spooky and, fortunately, fairly rare. But, a new study suggests, the real question isn't so much why some people occasionally experience them. It's why all of us aren't ...

Traditionally, perception and cognition have been considered distinct domains of psychological science. Perception was understood to be the raw data collector—our sensory touchpoint with the external ...