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Study suggests our visual world of color is largely incorrect

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From the Dartmouth College press release: Color awareness has long been a puzzle for researchers in neuroscience and psychology, who debate over how much color observers really perceive. A study from Dartmouth in collaboration with… 

Study suggests people make irrational trust decisions precisely

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From the University of Sussex press release: People make irrational trust decisions precisely: “shouting” and spelling mistakes add together to make online health information appear doubly less trustworthy. Online health information is deemed doubly less… 

Study suggests vision loss influences perception of sound

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From the Anglia Ruskin University press release: People with severe vision loss can less accurately judge the distance of nearby sounds, potentially putting them more at risk of injury, according to new research published in… 

Study looks at how gesturing adds emphasis to speech

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From the University of Connecticut press release: Gesturing with the hands while speaking is a common human behavior, but no one knows why we do it. Now, a group of UConn researchers reports in the… 

Study suggests why visual perception is a decision -making process

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From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release: A popular theory in neuroscience called predictive coding proposes that the brain produces all the time expectations that are compared with incoming information. Errors arising from differences between actual…