Experiences are stored in the mind as discrete mental units, or 'events,'which influence—
and are influenced by—attention, learning, and memory. In this way, the notion of an …

Attention is the process of focusing mental resources on a specific cognitive/behavioral task.
Such brain dynamics involves different partially overlapping brain functional networks …

Auditory perception is traditionally conceived as the perception of sounds—a friend's voice,
a clap of thunder, a minor chord. However, daily life also seems to present us with …

The physical world provides humans with continuous streams of experience in both space
and time. The human mind, however, can parse and organize this continuous input into …

We experience the world in terms of both (continuous) time and (discrete) events, but time
seems especially primitive—since we cannot perceive events without an underlying …

Object perception deploys a suite of perceptual capacities that constrains attention, guides
reidentification, subserves recognition, and anchors demonstrative thought. Objects for …

This chapter provides an overview of research at the intersection of music and cognitive
functions. Music, an intrinsically creative art form, requires bottom-up and top-down …

Previous research has implied that monetary reward to target location (a reward for spatial
properties) can affect object‐based attention, but no study has directly investigated the …

People sometimes disagree about who owns which objects, and these ownership dilemmas
can lead to costly disputes. We investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying people's …

People attribute purposes in both mundane and profound ways—such as when thinking
about the purpose of a knife and the purpose of a life. In three studies (total N= 13,720 …