Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim
that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that …

It has been a common premise in visual science that perception starts at the retina.
According to this view, the retina is stimulated by light patches that provide information to the …

A tidal wave of recent research purports to have discovered that higher-level states such as
moods, action capabilities, and categorical knowledge can literally and directly affect how …

A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to
explore the development and workings of human societies.“There is no good reason why …

Current models of visual perception typically assume that human vision estimates true
properties of physical objects, properties that exist even if unperceived. However, recent …

Seeing—perception and vision—is implicitly the fundamental building block of the literature
on rationality and cognition. Herbert Simon and Daniel Kahneman's arguments against the …

Can we believe what we see with our own eyes? Only up to a point, as the distinguished
neuropsychologist Richard Gregory makes amply clear in this intriguing book. For we are …

Why is there so much more research on vision than on any other sensory modality? There is
a seemingly easy answer to this question: It is because vision is our most important and …

A brilliant new theory of the mind that upends our understanding of how the brain interacts
with the world “This thoroughly readable book will convince you that the brain and the world …

Reading this book will make you less sure of yourself—and that'sa good thing. In The
Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology's …