Neuroscientists have long known that perception is not a neutral recording of the outside world but a construction, stitched together from sensory data and prior experience. What is becoming harder to ...

New insight into decision-making pathways in the brain may impact the way engineers think about artificial intelligence, ...

What you're perceiving right now — the weight of this device in your hand, the light on the screen, the ambient sounds around you — is not a faithful ...

Our brains don’t just receive sensory input—they actively interpret, reshape, and even fill in missing details to create our perception of reality. From detecting sound patterns to seeing illusions, ...

Areas of the brain that help a person differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary have been uncovered in a new study led by UCL researchers. The research, published in Neuron, found that ...

Reality isn't what you think it is. Everyday experience suggests that our senses inform us about what’s going on in the world around us. But recent advances in cognitive neuroscience suggest that we ...

A new analysis of the “Boltzmann brain” paradox suggests our memories and sense of reality could, in theory, be random ...

This post is in response to Your Brain: What’s Going On When Nothing’s Going On? By The Mental Health Innovation Group Mystical experiences, celebrated across cultures and epochs, are often described ...

Research into body ownership and perception in virtual reality has rapidly advanced our understanding of how the human brain constructs a sense of self through the integration of multisensory signals.

A single phrase can follow you for a lifetime. For me, it was this: Perception is reality. It was one of the first lessons drilled into me during Plebe Summer at the U.S. Naval Academy. It felt like a ...