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 ...

Contemporary research in cognitive science, philosophy of mind and educational science is converging on a powerful idea: perception is neither a passive given nor a simple processing of information, ...

To clarify the mechanism of serial dependence in number perception, a research team conducted two tests, independently asking subjects to estimate the number of coins, or to estimate the value of ...

Historic theory completed: A Los Alamos team finished Schrödinger’s 1920s color model by correcting its geometry and defining the long-missing neutral axis. Why geometry matters: The new ...