Visual processing varies dramatically across the visual field. These differences start in the
retina and continue all the way to the visual cortex. Despite these differences in processing …

To perceive the external environment our brain uses multiple sources of sensory information
derived from several different modalities, including vision, touch and audition. All these …

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 …

Ventriloquism is the ancient art of making one's voice appear to come from elsewhere, an art
exploited by the Greek and Roman oracles, and possibly earlier [1]. We regularly experience …

The perception of self-motion direction, or heading, relies on integration of multiple sensory
cues, especially from the visual and vestibular systems. However, the reliability of sensory …

The richness of perceptual experience, as well as its usefulness for guiding behaviour,
depends on the synthesis of information across multiple senses. Recent decades have …

Popular movies grab and hold our attention. One reason for this is that storytelling is
culturally important to us, but another is that general narrative formulae have been honed …

How does the visual system combine information from different depth cues to estimate three-
dimensional scene parameters? We tested a maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) model of …

Depth information from focus cues—accommodation and the gradient of retinal blur—is
typically incorrect in three-dimensional (3-D) displays because the light comes from a planar …

The amount and spectral content of the light reflected by most natural surfaces depends on
the structure of the light field, the observer's viewing position, and 3D surface geometry …