New research suggests that the emotional content of a facial expression influences how well observers can predict social ...

Semantic Extension, Idioms and Proverbs, Cultural Semantics, Cognitive Semantics Share and Cite: Di, J.Y. (2026) A Semantic Analysis of “Peach” in Chinese and Japanese. Open Access Library Journal, 13 ...

An ambitious effort to create a paradigm explaning near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people’s brushes with death, top University of Virginia ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

Psychological experiments have investigated conditions similar to those that existed during the Minnesota incident and could ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

Visual illusions that challenge depth perception show how perspective and angles mislead the eye. Venezuelan VP demands US free Maduro and vows to defend nation Man does DNA test on "weird looking" ...

You don't really need to remember what you ordered at the bakery a couple weeks ago. andresr/E+ via Getty Images When asked the other day about a bakery near my home, I responded that I’d recently ...

Gestalt theory in design isn’t one of those rules we hear about. It is an insight into our psychophysical makeup and relationship with the environment. The brain is a pattern-seeking device. In a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robert Jacobs, University of Rochester (THE CONVERSATION) When asked the other day ...