Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality. Adopting another person's visual perspective is a complex skill that emerges around the age of two.

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where the brain misinterprets what the eyes perceive, creating a false or ...

When you recall specific "when, where, and, who" details of a childhood memory, do you view the scene through your own eyes, or do you see yourself as a child through the lens of an outside observer?

About a year ago, I reported on Peggy St. Jacques' hypothesis that recalling autobiographical memories from a third-person, observer-like perspective (as opposed to replaying a memory through your own ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our perception of thinking about an image differs from objective reality.

For a translator to turn one language (say, English) into another (say, Greek), she has to be able to understand both languages and what common meanings they point to, because English is not very ...

New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists test the human mind. The work by Johns Hopkins University ...

Past research has suggested that people's cultural differences may result in differences in basic visual perception. New research found no evidence that these differences play a significant role in ...

The Paleoneurology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has just published a new study in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology which, for the first time, ...

When someone near you turns their head towards something in the environment, you likely can’t help to follow their gaze direction. This reaction is observed in mammals, birds and even reptiles alike.