Acute perceptual effects and long-term auditory health are separate questions. A cross-sectional NHANES analysis by Qian and ...

Deliberately slowing down your breathing rate alters how accurately you recognize emotions on the faces of people around you, ...

Editor’s note: Every year, hundreds of undergraduates at the University of Delaware pursue research under the guidance of a faculty mentor, especially during the summer months. Such experiences ...

A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled. Researchers at TUM have succeeded in observing the visual information flow ...

Sensory processing is fundamental to perception, action, and cognition, and its disruption contributes to a wide range of neurological, psychiatric, and ...

Past neuroscience and psychology studies have shown that people's expectations of the world can influence their perceptions, either by directing their attention to expected stimuli or by reducing ...

Watching nature scenes lessens pain by reducing brain activity linked to pain perception. The corresponding study was published in Nature Communications. "Our study is the first to provide evidence ...

New neuroscience research reveals that deliberately slowing breathing changes how people perceive facial emotions, with effects depending on whether they are inhaling or exhaling. The study found that ...

What makes up our sense of self has been an important focus of discussion for centuries. It has vexed philosophers and thinkers who have debated what the self is—and is not—with passion. A few years ...