Audiologist and researcher Dr. Julia Campbell shares her insights into the state of misophonia research and how we may get ...

The optical illusion shows a room with a lot of stuff lying around. Only someone with very high observational skills can spot ...

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI), commonly referred to as a concussion, is a prevalent neurological condition that can have profound and prolonged visual ...

Could an illusion help relieve pain? Researchers in Germany tested the "rubber hand illusion," a bizarre trick where people ...

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain's visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a ...

Medical imaging experts are adept at solving common optical illusions, according to research from four UK universities, ...

This important study examined orientation representations along the visual hierarchy during perception and working memory. The authors provide results suggesting that during working memory there is a ...

Sounds you consciously perceive affect your brain differently than sounds you don't, a recent Yale study found.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Georgia Tech has discovered how lateral inhibition helps our brains process visual information, and it could expand our knowledge of sensory perception, ...

a brain area that plays a key role in emotional processing. Women who rated their childbirth experience as difficult or stressful — a perception that is often associated with postpartum ...

function. Motion, color, light and shadow: everything we see is the result of complex computations in our brain -- or, more precisely, in the visual cortex. This is where stimuli that hit our ...

So, without sensory stimulation, your brain will fill in the gaps, which often causes visual hallucinations ... state of consciousness or extrasensory perception — also called the sixth sense ...