Ten Mind-Blowing Theories in Perception of the World - Reality is not as obvious and simple as we like to think. Some of the things that we accept as true at face value are notoriously wrong.

Consciousness gives rise to a sense of self and personal agency. The question is, how do biological processes give rise to ...

Perception theory begins from a simple premise: that all our senses and the inputs that go into them must be categorized and studied. Perception is simply the moment when we become aware of ...

Experts describe conspiracy theories as explanations for important events involving secret plots by powerful, malicious groups. One popular conspiracy theory is that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act ...

The theory is outlined in a paper out this week in Nature Neuroscience. “Perception is not simply understanding the environment around us as it is, but about how our brains reconstruct the environment ...

Anne Treisman, a psychologist whose pathbreaking research into human perception and attention helped explain how the mind, not the eyes, serves as the true window to the world, died Feb. 9 at her ...

Our Current Theory of Human Color Perception Is Wrong, Study Finds A paradigm shift in color perception might translate to more vibrant digital displays, printed materials, textiles, and video and ...

The theories are hard to summarise, but both tie consciousness to the activity of neurons in different parts of the brain. Advocates of these two theories, together with a number of unaligned ...