Deliberately slowing down your breathing rate alters how accurately you recognize emotions on the faces of people around you, ...

The findings suggest that perception and labeling can measurably shape how people experience sweet foods and drinks.

Taking all this together, the spontaneous activity reshaping hypothesis – our new theory that imagination carves images out ...

The same brain cells activate when you see something and when you imagine it, helping explain why mental images can feel so ...

A new study suggests that four psychoactive compounds work in surprisingly similar ways, and that they break down the ...

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, ...

A new advanced imaging study led by scientists from the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London (ICL), has looked at what happens in people's brains when they take the potent ...

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain.

When you touch a hot stove, your hand pulls away via a spinal reflex before you feel the burn—and the brain may use a similar ...

How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in everyday life, perceive the duration of events around us? The answer lies in how ...

Perceiving whether another person is a personal health risk requires quickly assessing their trustworthiness. With limited characteristics available, implicit assumptions often influence risk ...

Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body's energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you're ...