There has never been a more critical time to consider the importance of perception in business. In his classic 2005 book, The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman showcased how we must improve our global ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. I explored some basic communication principles in my column ...

Perception is important in politics. Perception is just about everything in politics. This one is still a story at the end of ...

Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people, the ...

A recent study shows that different people have similar brain activity when perceiving social situations. Researchers discovered an extensive neural network in the human brain that effectively ...

We hear it all the time, in the business world, in the political arena, in marriages, anytime there is a disagreement or conflict: “Perception is reality.” This aphorism is often used to justify a ...

To determine how familiarity with a talker's voice affects perception of spoken words, we trained two groups of subjects to recognize a set of voices over a 9-day period. One group then identified ...

Neuroscientists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) together with colleagues at the Freiburg University show that this is not strictly the case. Instead, they show that prediction errors can ...

In May, the Department of Labor reported an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent — the lowest it's been in 18 years. Employers are adding jobs at a steady rate, and while that's good news for the economy, ...