Your brain’s habit of replaying the same song on a loop is not a glitch so much as a side effect of how memory, reward and ...

There is something hypnotic about repetition. A pattern repeated just so starts to hum in your head — familiar, rhythmic, and somehow reassuring. The same thing occurs in design: when images echo back ...

Growing up means understanding Boomers aren't just stubborn. They're products of a completely different information ecosystem. Last Thanksgiving, my mom cited a TV segment as gospel truth. When I ...

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the persistence of maternal vocative expression (VE) effects on adult auditory processing. Using a quasi-experimental, one-way repeated measures ANOVA, the research ...

Seeing the same picture more than once makes us more likely to believe it reflects reality. That holds for both photographs and AI-generated fakes. Repetition alone boosts perceived authenticity, even ...

Research team: “The findings raise concerns about the spread of false visual information on social media and its influence on public perception. If until now the proverb went, ‘A lie told often enough ...

Revised: This Reviewed Preprint has been revised by the authors in response to the previous round of peer review; the eLife assessment and the public reviews have been updated where necessary by the ...

This important study is of relevance for the fields of predictive processing, perception and learning, with a well-designed paradigm allowing the authors to avoid several common confounds in ...

Joshua grew up in poverty, deep in the Middle of Nowhere, Alabama. Gaming was a rarely afforded escape from reality that persisted throughout his life, something that saw him through good times and ...