Recent work in human cognitive neuroscience has linked self-consciousness to the
processing of multisensory bodily signals (bodily self-consciousness [BSC]) in fronto-parietal …

When facing uncertainty, adaptive behavioral strategies demand that the brain performs
probabilistic computations. In this probabilistic framework, the notion of certainty and …

Decisions vary in difficulty. Humans know this and typically report more confidence in easy
than in difficult decisions. However, confidence reports do not perfectly track decision …

Human perceptual decisions are often described as optimal. Critics of this view have argued
that claims of optimality are overly flexible and lack explanatory power. Meanwhile …

Brain function involves the activity of neuronal populations. Much recent effort has been
devoted to measuring the activity of neuronal populations in different parts of the brain under …

The ability to use cues from multiple senses in concert is a fundamental aspect of brain
function. It maximizes the brain's use of the information available to it at any given moment …

Natural events present multiple types of sensory cues, each detected by a specialized
sensory modality. Combining information from several modalities is essential for the …

To form a veridical percept of the environment, the brain needs to integrate sensory signals
from a common source but segregate those from independent sources. Thus, perception …

There is converging evidence that high doses of hallucinogenic drugs can produce
significant alterations of self-experience, described as the dissolution of the sense of self …

Most models of sensory processing in the brain have a feedforward architecture in which
each stage comprises simple linear filtering operations and nonlinearities. Models of this …