Mind & Brain
Everyday Love
Emotion never stops in everyday life. A new study reveals that people experience emotions most of the time as they go about their daily activities. The second most common feeling? Love...
Illusion Chasers
Illusions, Delusions, and Everyday Deceptions
Mind & Brain
What Little Babies See That You No Longer Can
Before developing perceptual constancy, three- to four-month-old babies have a striking ability to see image differences that are invisible to adults. They lose this superior skill around the age of five months...
Neuroscience
Remembering David Bowie: The Goblin King's Juggling Illusion
In memory of the artist David Bowie, who died on Sunday, January 10, we feature here an excerpt of the movie Labyrinth, with Bowie performing contact juggling as the Goblin King. ...
Mind & Brain
How to Stick to Your New Year Resolutions
The trick may be to focus on leaving your old "inferior self" behind
Neuroscience
The Force of the Lightsaber Illusion
The white in the middle of this lightsaber can’t be any whiter than the white background that your screen generates: but it nevertheless appears brighter.
Cognition
Mind Magic--The Neuroscience of Magic
Don’t miss the new neuro-magic video at Scientific American, featuring the amazing Joshua Jay!
Mind & Brain
Call for Illusion Submissions: The Best Illusion of the Year Contest
Contestants are invited to submit 1-minute YouTube videos featuring novel illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2015) of all sensory modalities (visual, auditory, etc.)...
Mind & Brain
Training Reduces the Size of the Blind Spot
New research shows that a mere 8 days of training can reduce the size of the physiological blind spot.
Mind & Brain
Neuroscience in Fiction: Age Progression
Yesterday, the journal Nature published a short science fiction story that I wrote to explore the concept that we create reality in our own brains, irrespective of what the world outside may be like...
Mind & Brain
The Neural Activity Patterns That Make Us Hallucinate
Hallucinations may arise from both imprecise sensory information and cognitive bias
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