Predictive coding theories posit that the perceptual system is structured as a hierarchically
organized set of generative models with increasingly general models at higher levels. The …

This special issue presents research concerning multistable perception in different sensory
modalities. Multistability occurs when a single physical stimulus produces alternations …

In The Unity of Consciousness Tim Bayne draws on philosophy, psychology, and
neuroscience in defence of the claim that consciousness is unified. In the first part of the …

Using a visual-to-auditory sensory-substitution algorithm, congenitally fully blind adults were
taught to read and recognize complex images using" soundscapes"—sounds …

The role of memory in behavioral distraction by auditory attentional capture was
investigated: We examined whether capture is a product of the novelty of the capturing event …

A key question in sensory perception is the role of experience in shaping the functional
architecture of the sensory neural systems. Here we studied dependence on visual …

Auditory stream segregation involves linking temporally separate acoustic events into one or
more coherent sequences. For any non-trivial sequence of sounds, many alternative …

In humans, multisensory interaction is an important strategy for improving the detection of
stimuli of different nature and reducing the variability of response. It is known that the …

Parsing of sound sources in the auditory environment or 'auditory scene analysis' is a
computationally demanding cognitive operation that is likely to be vulnerable to the …

According to the object-based account of attention, multiple objects coexist in short-term
memory (STM), and we can selectively attend to a particular object of interest. Although …