Adaptive behavior in a complex, dynamic, and multisensory world poses some of the most
fundamental computational challenges for the brain, notably inference, decision-making …

The promise of virtual reality (VR) as a tool for perceptual and cognitive research rests on
the assumption that perception in virtual environments generalizes to the real world. Here …

Seeing a person's mouth move for [ga] while hearing [ba] often results in the perception of
“da.” Such audiovisual integration of speech cues, known as the McGurk effect, is stable …

Human adults are adept at mitigating the influence of sensory uncertainty on task
performance by integrating sensory cues with learned prior information, in a Bayes‐optimal …

Auditory perception requires categorizing sound sequences, such as speech or music, into
classes, such as syllables or notes. Auditory categorization depends not only on the acoustic …

Identifying a spoken word in a referential context requires both the ability to integrate
multimodal input and the ability to reason under uncertainty. How do these tasks interact …

Over the past several decades, behavioral methods suitable for use with human infants have
revealed detailed characteristics of perceptual development, but the causal mechanisms …

Natural language provides a mechanism for cultural evolution by ensuring the persistent
heredity of variations in both cultural information and information about its own construction …

Postural reflexes maintain the orientation of the entire body following unexpected
movements. The collic reflexes, a subset of postural reflexes, stabilize the head and neck …

Synesthesia is a phenomenon defined by the experience of unusual associations. For
instance, a lexical-gustatory synesthete may taste 'cold, hard bacon'when hearing the word …