Skeptophilia

I was making dinner last week, and the recipe called for soy sauce.  I knew we had a bottle of it -- and I was pretty sure it was somewhere ...

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

It seems like every time researchers look further into our sensory-perceptive systems, we have another hole punched in our certainty that wh...

I have a fascination for optical illusions. Not only are they cool, they often point out some profound information about how we process sens...

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...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said (apropos of UFO sightings), "The human brain and perceptual systems are rife with ways of getti...

One of the reasons I trust science is that I have so little trust in my own brain's ability to assess correctly the nature of reality. ...

Perception is such a mystery. Neuroscientist David Eagleman, in his brilliant TED talk " Can We Create New Senses For Humans? ",...

One of the biggest unsolved mysteries of science is how the brain encodes what we know, think about, and experience. For many types of inf...