How we feel about a night’s sleep can have a bigger impact on mood and grogginess than actual hours of rest. Here’s how to ...

A new study published in the Journal of Cognition provides evidence that what we know influences what we hear. Researchers found that when people listened to pairs of words and nonsense words spoken ...

How is it that two people can see the same thing and have a completely different understanding of what happened? Two leaders can look at the same numbers, hear the same news or face the same challenge ...

‘Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.” — John Maxwell In his book “Winning Every Day,” legendary football coach Lou Holtz ...

Our analysis showed that temporal perception has even greater variation than scientists may have realised. Our perceptual ...

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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 ...

Any walker or hiker can tell you that an uphill path is more challenging than a flat one. But does it literally look longer, too? A study in the May issue of Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics ...