The semantic categorization task included two questions: 1. Love is light/heavy. 2. Love is soft/hard. The options were randomized and presented. The word “love” was replaced by “恋爱” “浪漫之爱” “男女之爱” ...

October 15, 2008 — When patients with generalized social phobia (GSP) read negative comments about themselves, areas of their brain involved in self perception become activated, a new study shows.

A new model shows that a range of visual illusions in humans can be explained as rational inferences about the odds that a motion stimulus on the retina results from a particular real-world source.

Neuroscience is a relatively young discipline. This is especially true in relation to the physical sciences. While we understand a great deal about how, for example, physical properties emerge from ...

In The Dew Breaker by Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat,a young immigrant, struggling with her sense of displacement, uses the food and spices of her Haitian childhood as a perceptual ...