How the brain interprets the dress illusion. In person, the dress is clearly blue and black.The lighting of the image, which has a bluish tint, appears to be what is throwing people's brains off.

To recap: A cellphone picture of a wedding guest’s dress, uploaded to the internet, sharply divided people into those who saw it as white and gold and those who saw it in black and blue—even ...

In honor of World Book Day, here are 15 Books by Black women that helped shape my life by permanently altering my brain chemistry. Related: 7 Black Books Changing How We Think About Love.

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 ...

Your brain is not a hard drive—it’s better. With the right training, it can store, recall, and process information with astonishing clarity. Here are 10 powerful books that help you do exactly ...