Researchers studying "pragmatic actions" have some timely findings about what we learn when people shake their presents.

A new technology called JumpMod can give people the sense of jumping higher, landing harder, and being pulled down while in VR.

In only takes a few seconds of listening to know whether or not we'll like a song, a new study shows.

People perceive men described as insensitive to pain as larger and stronger than those who were sensitive to pain, research finds.

While past research has concluded there's overlap between memory and perception, a new study reveals they're systematically different.

Researchers examined the brain waves of children with and without autism to see how they process movement and body language.

Americans are more forgiving of lies when they come from politicians in their own party, research finds.

Human brains constantly face ambiguous sensory inputs. To correctly perceive the world, our brains use a process known as causal inference.

New research shows how categories, such as names, bias our perception of very similar faces.

If you see a face in a tree trunk or your toast in the morning, you're more likely to perceive it as male, a new study shows.