Action video games have been shown to enhance behavioral performance on a wide variety
of perceptual tasks, from those that require effective allocation of attentional resources …

Background Perceptual learning has been documented in adult humans over a wide range
of tasks. Although the often-observed specificity of learning is generally interpreted as …

An observer detecting a noisy sensory signal is biased by the costs and benefits associated
with its presence or absence. When these costs and benefits are asymmetric, sensory, and …

Using the external noise plus training paradigm, we have consistently found that two
independent mechanisms, stimulus enhancement and external noise exclusion, support …

How does attention alter neural responses? Decades of electrophysiological measurements
in non-human primates as well as human EEG and fMRI studies have shown that spatial …

Crowding is a prominent phenomenon in peripheral vision where nearby objects impede
one's ability to identify a target of interest. The precise mechanism of crowding is not known …

Vision must analyze the retinal image over both small and large areas to represent fine-
scale spatial details and extensive textures. The long-range neuronal convergence that this …

This commentary gives a personal perspective on modeling and modeling developments in
cognitive science, starting in the 1950s, but focusing on the author's personal views of …

Difficult visual search is often attributed to time-limited serial attention operations, although
neural computations in the early visual system are parallel. Using probabilistic search …

Perceptual decisions require the brain to weigh noisy evidence from sensory neurons to
form categorical judgments that guide behavior. Here we review behavioral and …