How is it that two people can see the same thing and have a completely different understanding of what happened? Two leaders can look at the same numbers, hear the same news or face the same challenge ...

There are some universal truths about time. There are sixty seconds in a minute. There are 365 days in a year (except for leap years that have 366, of course). There are 24 hours in every day. Try as ...

What makes a Stradivarius violin so valuable? The sign in front of the quaint cottage steps said, “We make violins and violas.” I had been just passing by, but the sign intrigued me as I stopped for a ...

Reality isn't what you think it is. Everyday experience suggests that our senses inform us about what’s going on in the world around us. But recent advances in cognitive neuroscience suggest that we ...

A new study published in the Journal of Cognition provides evidence that what we know influences what we hear. Researchers found that when people listened to pairs of words and nonsense words spoken ...

Why your perception of "old" changes as you age. This is a Kaiser Health News story. My perception of old age is inextricably linked to my grandmother. When I was a kid, I thought this 65-year-old, ...