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I've long been fascinated by the phenomenon of priming , where our interpretation of a sensory stimulus is altered by what we expected t...

One topic I've come back to over and over again here at Skeptophilia is how flawed our sensory/perceptive apparatus is.  Oh, it works w...

Ever have the experience of getting into a car, closing the door, and accidentally shutting the seatbelt in the door? What's interesting...

When I'm out in a crowded bar, I struggle with something that I think a lot of us do -- trying to isolate the voice of the person I'...

The week after I retired I made the mistake of saying to my wife, "I don't know what I'm going to do with all of my free time!...

The idea that our sensory processing apparatus and our brains are unreliable has been something I've come back to again and again here a...