A single phrase can follow you for a lifetime. For me, it was this: Perception is reality. It was one of the first lessons drilled into me during Plebe Summer at the U.S. Naval Academy. It felt like a ...

A few years ago I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I’d been walking for a few minutes, looking at the fields and the sky, there was a shift in my perception.

Even mild anxiety and stress can distort our perception of reality. We often miss something right in front of us due to ...

It is always fascinating, and sometimes exhausting, when a debate or spirited discussion reaches the point where opinion, personal experience, or perception quietly crosses an invisible line and ...

According to Anil Seth, professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, “perception, instead of just being a reflection of what’s actually there in the world, is ...

A few years ago I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I’d been walking for a few minutes, looking at the fields and the sky, there was a shift in my perception.

Every second, our visual system is busy piecing together fragments of light, color, and edges to create a world that makes sense. Psychologists call this ability to take scattered details and see a ...