Sounds you consciously perceive affect your brain differently than sounds you don't, a recent Yale study found. For the study, researchers played participants a series of tones—ranging in intensity ...

A team of scientists has identified areas of the brain that are activated when a person becomes aware of themself and their thoughts. This enigmatic process appears to be controlled by the thalamus, a ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in Trieste, published in PLOS Computational Biology. The research shows that, ...

Hallucinations are more common than we think, and they may be an underlying mechanism for how our brains experience the world. One scientist calls them “everyday hallucinations” to describe ...

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 ...

New ultra–high-field brain scans reveal hidden body maps inside the visual system, showing how the brain weaves sight and touch together to build a unified sense of perception. Study: Vicarious body ...

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 ...