Imagining an Object Can Change How We Hear Sounds Later
Research shows that you don’t need to see an actual object to experience the “ventriloquist illusion” and its aftereffect. Simply imagining the object produces the same illusory results. … More
Sensory Systems
Call for Papers for 34th Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics
The 34th Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics will take place August 20th-24th, 2018, at Leuphana University in Lueneburg… More
New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring the distinction between false memory and false belief and how percepts are unified across the left and right visual fields… More
‘I Feel Your Pain’: The Neuroscience of Empathy
Observing someone else in anguish can evoke a deep sense of distress and sadness — almost as if it’s happening to us. APS Fellow Ying-yi Hong and other scientists identify some of the regions of the brain responsible for this sense of interconnectedness… More
APS Sponsors NAS Behavioral Sciences Board’s 20th Anniversary Celebration
One of the foremost US advisory groups on behavioral sciences celebrated its 20th anniversary and APS helped to mark the celebration… More
New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring: a person-centered approach to understanding comorbidity; links between deployment stressors, post-military work, and family quality of life; audiovisual binding and symptoms predicting onset of schizophrenia; and a functional view of the p factor in psychopathology… More