What we call “pretty” is far less fixed than it feels. Research shows that attraction is shaped by biology, psychology, ...

Using direct, intracranial brain recordings in humans, a new study finds that the thalamus, a small region located deep within the brain, plays a pivotal role in conscious perception. According to the ...

Earlier this year, Unlikely Collaborators, in partnership with Pod People, launched Science of Perception Box, a podcast that has quickly captured the attention of listeners eager to unravel the ...

The visual perception of optical stimuli demands high performance from the brain. Every second, the eyes absorb more than ten million pieces of information and transmit them to the brain via thousands ...

In July 1930, Rabindranath Tagore visited Albert Einstein in Caputh, near Berlin, at his summerhouse. The meeting of the two ...

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today, instead of our usual news roundup, I’m here to introduce you to our new interim host. I’m ...

The workshop featured invited presentations and discussions to explore the state of the science on perception and cognition as it applies to how individuals trust and make sense of information. An ...

Improvements in three-dimensional (3D) scanning have enabled quick and accurate scanning of 3D objects, including cultural heritage objects, as 3D point cloud data. However, conventional ...