There has never been a more critical time to consider the importance of perception in business. In his classic 2005 book, The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman showcased how we must improve our global ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. I explored some basic communication principles in my column ...

This week, I turn to the work of William B. Swann of the University of Texas, Austin, who offered a different perspective on professional judgment of personality in an influential article in 1984. His ...

We hear it all the time, in the business world, in the political arena, in marriages, anytime there is a disagreement or conflict: “Perception is reality.” This aphorism is often used to justify a ...

Visual perceptual skills are updated by process similar to memory reconsolidation, study finds New research concludes that humans' ability to identify and categorize what they see is kept up-to-date ...

Laura Kelley receives funding from People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013). Jennifer Kelley receives funding from the Australian ...

How the brain allows us to see an animal, know what the animal is, where it is in relation to us, and what it looks like in comparison to other things in our world is a phenomenon that is confusing to ...

When the nose encounters two different scents simultaneously, the brain processes them separately through each nostril in an alternating fashion. This finding is the first demonstration of "perceptual ...