Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...

Derived from the Greek word “palin” for “again” and “opsia” for “seeing,” palinopsia is a rare visual system processing distortion. People with this distortion continue to see the image of an object ...

In our lifetimes, we encounter hundreds of thousands of faces. Each person's unique exposure to faces largely determines their "face space"—a model of how we encode, perceive, and remember the faces ...

It sounds like the stuff of horror films — but for people who are afflicted with a rare disorder, it’s a terrifying reality. A condition called prosopometamorphopsia (PMO) causes facial features to ...

You bought blue light glasses to save your eyes from screen strain, but somehow they’re making everything worse. Your eyes feel tired, your head hurts, and the world looks like it’s been dunked in ...

The human mind is one of the most magnificent creations ever made. It performs magical feats and is a complex "machine" that scientists and psychologists are constantly trying to figure out. When it ...

The key visual shows what looks like a person holding a doll close to their chest. There are red markings on the hand around the doll, and part of the doll’s face has what looks like a crack in it.

The amount of the discount may be less important than the numerical value of the farthest right digit, explains a new study from the Journal of Consumer Research. Keith S. Coulter (Clark University) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. If you’re familiar with Alice in Wonderland, then you’re already aware of the ...