Say you see the dress as white and gold — like me — but you know that somebody else, Taylor Swift, for example, perceives it as blue and black. At that moment, the brain is doing something ...

The must-read brain books of 2018 covered topics ranging from time to perception to hormones to psychedelics. Part one of this two-part list offers five selections, each a worthy contribution to ...

In February 2015, the viral illusion had viewers in a hot debate over whether the dress was black and blue or white and gold. Here's the science.

Some people see a white and gold dress in dark shadow. Some people see a blue and black dress washed out in bright light. Some people see one interpretation and then switch to the other.

The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality, by Andy Clark, Pantheon Books, 304 pages, $30. For René Descartes, minds were essentially thinking (or feeling) things. For the ...