According to recent research, humans may have a new touch-related sense that allows us to detect buried objects without ...

Our human senses apparently don’t stop at five—as recent research shows, we may have over thirty. Most of our experiences are ...

Schopenhauer’s account of sense perception contains an acute critique of Kant’s theory of cognition. His analysis of the role of the understanding in perception may be closer to Kant’s than he ...

A dream about a butterfly in ancient China triggered debates about perception and reality for over two millennia. Source: Calvin Mano / Unsplash During the warm summer months in ancient China, the ...

THE recent symposium* and discussion on “Sense Perception and the Evolution of Colour and Pattern” held under the auspices of Section D (Zoology) of the British Association at Cambridge directs ...

IN the very interesting address of Prof. C. von Nägeli at Munich, on “The Limits of Natural Knowledge,” of which a first portion is printed by you (NATURE, vol. xvi. p. 531), in illustration of his ...