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Perception of time is very dynamic. We can accurately judge how much time has passed, or inaccurately perceive that a time duration is longer or shorter than the actual time passed. We have biological ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

The first time I used virtual reality (VR), I was struck by how completely it cut my senses off from my surroundings. By the time I took the headset off, I had lost track of where I was standing in ...

The Chen Lab at Johns Hopkins University is looking for in-person participants for a psychology experiment investigating perception and memory. During the experiment, participants view movies or ...

Upright Vision Through Inverting Spectacles (1953), produced by the University of Innsbruck's Department of Experimental Psychology, documents a scientific experiment exploring the adaptability of ...

It started with an argument over a blanket. “I’m a visual neuroscientist, and my wife, Dr Marissé Masis-Solano, is an ophthalmologist,” says Dr Patrick Mineault, designer of the viral web app ...