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Senses

Everything on this site about senses — each one naming the study behind it.

You see motion in lights that stay perfectly still.
The autokinetic effect was first systematically applied in psychology by Muzafer Sherif in 1935 to study social norms,…
Your brain hallucinates words you did not hear.
In the phonemic restoration effect, listeners report hearing a missing phoneme in a word if the gap is replaced by a n…
The scent of your environment dictates your ability to focus.
A 2003 study found that exposure to peppermint odor significantly improves performance on tasks requiring sustained at…