Expectations are known to greatly affect our experience of the world. A growing theory in
computational neuroscience is that perception can be successfully described using …

Perception operates on an immense amount of incoming information that greatly exceeds
the brain's processing capacity. Because of this fundamental limitation, the ability to …

Human perception, cognition, and action are laced with seemingly arbitrary mappings. In
particular, sound has a strong spatial connotation: Sounds are high and low, melodies rise …

Recent debates in the psychological literature have raised questions about the assumptions
that underpin Bayesian models of cognition and what inferences they license about human …

Background Sequential effects of environmental stimuli are ubiquitous in most behavioral
tasks involving magnitude estimation, memory, decision making, and emotion. The human …

Highlights•Researchers disagree about whether visual phenomenology is rich or
sparse.•Studies show that minimally attended phenomenology is subjectively overestimated …

We recently demonstrated that observers are capable of encoding not only summary
statistics, such as mean and variance of stimulus ensembles, but also the shape of the …

Attentional priming has a dominating influence on vision, speeding visual search, releasing
items from crowding, reducing masking effects, and during free-choice, primed targets are …

To estimate an environmental property such as object location from multiple sensory signals,
the brain must infer their causal relationship. Only information originating from the same …

Inappropriate speed is a main cause of accidents. Drivers are often unaware of potential
risks due to inadequate speed. To prevent dangerous situations, we need to understand …