When I was in high school, my friend switched sodas on me one day. I thought I was taking a swig of Coca Cola, but he had replaced it with cream soda. I immediately spit it out, thinking it tasted ...

Researchers examined decades of data to create a unifying theory to explain biases in perception. Photo-Illustration: Martha Morales/The University of Texas at Austin How humans perceive the world ...

“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” —from Seduction of the Minotaur, by Anaïs Nin (1961) On the 10th of April 2019 Pope Francis, President Salva Kiir of South Sudan and former ...

Altered tactile decision-making in autism reflects context-dependent weighting of sensory inputs and diminished integration of sensory history, enhancing low-salience discrimination while reducing ...

We think of people with autism as having a deficit in cognitive processing--but their distractibility could also result from having enhanced perceptual capabilities WHEN Pulitzer Prize–winning music ...

A recent study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that individuals who experience persistent visual ...