Sensory processes, perception and performance constitute a multifaceted domain that bridges the sensory encoding of environmental stimuli, the perceptual interpretations formed by the brain, and the ...

My recent book, Making Sense of Emotion, views emotional intelligence as "emotional literacy." This perspective on emotional intelligence suggests a new theoretical framework that breaks down ...

Our body movements profoundly impact how our brain processes sensory information. Historically, it was believed that the brain's primary motor cortex played a key role in modulating sensory ...

The last in our series on the senses explores the nature of the sense of touch. This is a Self-assessment article and comes with a self-assessment test. Abstract This final article in our series on ...

This study tested two hypotheses concerning the cognitive processes underlying human mate choice in Western society: (i) mate preference is conditional in that the selectivity of individuals' mate ...

That uncanny feeling strikes without warning. You walk into a room you have never visited before, yet everything seems strangely familiar. You know with absolute certainty that you have never been ...