A peak into how the brain distinguishes a friend or foe offers findings relevant to anxiety and psychosis, say researchers.

To perceive self-driving cars as safe, they have to have certain personality traits, researchers say. Here are the ones that matter most.

The skeletal shapes of objects—picture a stick figure—is a key tool to help us in object recognition.

If your neighbors' houses are bigger than yours, you may be less likely to feel satisfied with your own home, researchers say.

Perceptions, according to cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman, are a user interface, but not necessarily reality. Where does that leave us?

You can improve your perception of moving objects against a similar background with training, new research on vision shows.

Human brains sort similar colors into categories to help us perceive the world around us. It turns out birds use the same trick.

People with vision impairments know a lot about the shape, size, color, and texture of animals they've never seen, but how?

Did you play Pokémon as a kid? Your brain may respond differently than others' to pictures of Pikachu and other Pokémon.

The "curse of specificity" keeps us from transferring progress on simple cognitive tasks to larger skills, but categorization may help.