This moment of revelation is common to many people who don’t form mental images. They report that they might never have ...

New analysis of an Anne Boleyn portrait has revealed a long-hidden detail that counters damaging claims that she was a witch.

Technological advances and an erosion of trust have transformed the way news unfolds online, distorting shared reality.

Alexandria — The oft told legend is that George Washington could not tell a lie. The reality is that General Washington proved to be a master of guile and deceit. These qualities are among the ...

Over centuries, artists and censors have employed the humble fig leaf to cover the penis – including on Michelangelo’s ...

We describe a model of visual processing in which feedback connections from a higher- to a lower-order visual cortical area carry predictions of lower-level neural activities, whereas the feedforward ...

Meaning doesn’t stay inside individual brains. Shared attention and language allow meaning to become symbolic, social, and cumulative.