Synesthesia is a neurologic trait in which specific inducers, such as sounds, automatically elicit additional idiosyncratic percepts, such as color (thus “colored hearing”). One explanation for this ...

During periods of stress, the sympathetic nervous system automatically narrows the range of perceptual inputs to emphasize central vision. This perceptual narrowing is an evolutionary skill that was ...

Rather than crawling inexorably toward a better appreciation of the world around them, infants take a perceptual step backward before their first birthday, a new study indicates. That reversal, ...