October 15, 2008 — When patients with generalized social phobia (GSP) read negative comments about themselves, areas of their brain involved in self perception become activated, a new study shows.

In The Dew Breaker by Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat,a young immigrant, struggling with her sense of displacement, uses the food and spices of her Haitian childhood as a perceptual ...

The whole concept of perception and what the brain allows us to see or not see really made “Blindness” an engrossing episode of Perception Season 2, if not a memorable one. I think it’s great that the ...