[Update: After this post had been published, Uli Schimmack and I had a quick chat and Uli was very surprised to learn that I hadn't read his 2012 Psychological Methods paper on the topic. He has now p...

Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. This study shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion a...

Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

The menstrual cycle requires tight orchestration between the brain and body, and irregularities can be both the cause and the consequence of wide-ranging health issues. Embracing this complexity, inst...

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Fillingim et al. show that biological and psychosocial factors jointly predict conditions associated with chronic pain.

An intriguing aspect of the human mind is our knowledge that our perceptions may be false. Our frequent exposure to non-veridical perceptions such as those found in dreams, illusions and hallucination...