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The blind spots are scotomas (areas of degenerated acuity) found in all mammalian eyes, and are due to the way the optic nerve crosses the retina (back of the eye): Because there are no cells to d …

A couple of studies (Harrison et al, 2007; Amer & Johnson, 2016) tested pauses/stalls in progress, and concluded (respectively): "... participants perceived progress bars with pauses as taking longer …

Now, supposing that the first mic->speaker connection represents the auditory nerve (ear -> primary auditory cortex), and the second connection represents "perception" (auditory cortex -> rest of brain … Neuroplasticity of "perception" is much greater. …

Part of the difficulty in studying time perception is that memory is known to be biased by numerous factors including arousal and salience. … However, this conclusion has been criticized by other authors as the failure to produce an effect on time perception may be due to the experiment not being frightening enough, for only testing visual perception …

Peripheral drift illusions, as their name suggests, create the illusion of motion in the periphery of the visual field. Similar images that generate illusory motion in the center of the visual field …

No, inner speech does not follow the same neural pathway as speech coming in from outside. Rather, inner speech uses the same neural mechanism as outer speech - that is, speech going out. The neural …

This is informally referred to as the illusion of causality: Illusions of causality occur when people develop the belief that there is a causal connection between two events that are actually unrelat …

I assume this is a question about perceived mental effort, which is closely related to (though not the same as) cognitive load, and is a specific kind of introspection, or more generally metacognition …

In psychology, we call people's attitudes towards things "preferences", and the emotional experience associated with preference is referred to as "affect", or more specifically, "valence", which is po …

This sounds like hot-cold empathy gap: For example, when one is angry, it is difficult to understand what it is like for one to be calm, and vice versa; when one is blindly in love with someone, it i …

This excerpt refers to an experiment described in Topolinski & Strack (2009) and Topolinski & Strack (2009), and is part of a series of experiments that used a variety of different methods to demonstr …

In general, the answer is no - smell does not enhance memory. But you are onto something with the proximity of the olfactory cortex to the limbic system: You are not the first to have noticed the spec …

Weick's sensemaking perspective is widely referenced in organizational behaviour literature, and has been significantly refined and extended over the years. For a good review of current status see San …