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Anxiety Limits Our Ability to Discriminate Faces and Speech
Anxiety can impair our accuracy on face- and word-recognition tasks, providing another possible source of fallibility in eyewitness testimony. ... More>
“Seeing” Faces Through Touch
New research shows that we don't just see faces with our eyes — our sense of touch can also contribute to face perception. ... More>
Fear of Holes May Stem From Evolutionary Survival Response
Trypophobia — a fear of holes — may occur as a result of a specific visual feature also found among various poisonous animals ... More>
Hearing What We Read
Psychological scientists have discovered new evidence of what goes on in the brain when people read printed words. ... More>
