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.

New research suggests that people are more interested in the lives of strangers than you might think and we can have better conversation by going deeper.

A new tool assesses how well people recognize emotion in elementary school-aged children. It seems adults aren't very good at it.

Light and sound move at different speeds. To make sense of the sights and sounds around you, your brain has a few tricks to account for the difference.

A new app detects a telltale characteristic of autism in toddlers. The technology could one day offer an inexpensive, scalable early screening tool.

Even when we don't mean to, we "see" the invisible, implied objects that mimes interact with, researchers have found.

Are humans the only species to experience the world consciously? A new study suggests the answer is no.

By age three, children show a preference for the fractal patterns common in nature, despite growing up in a world of Euclidean geometry.

A new device called HandMorph can help adults get a taste of what it's like to interact with the world as a child, researchers say.