This chapter reviews the ecological conditions that favor the evolution of plasticity, and the
costs and limits that constrain the evolution of plasticity. Variable environments tend to select …

Perceptual decisions are better when they take uncertainty into account. Uncertainty arises
not only from the properties of sensory input but also from cognitive sources, such as …

Despite the tangible progress in psychological and cognitive sciences over the last several
years, these disciplines still trail other more mature sciences in identifying the most important …

Filmmakers of panoramic videos frequently struggle to guide attention to Regions of Interest
(ROIs) due to consumers' freedom to explore. Some researchers hypothesize that peripheral …

Salient, exogenous cues have been shown to induce a temporary boost of perceptual
sensitivity in their immediate vicinity. In two experiments involving uninformative exogenous …

Attention abilities rest on the coordinated interplay of multiple components. One
consequence to this multifaceted account is that selection processes likely intersect with …

Exogenous attention, a powerful adaptive tool that quickly and involuntarily orients
processing resources to salient stimuli, has traditionally been studied in the lower-resolution …

We often effortlessly take the perceptual perspective of others: we represent some aspect of
the environment that others currently perceive. However, taking someone's perspective can …

In daily life, repeated experiences with a task (eg driving) will generally result in the
development of a belief about one's ability (“I am a good driver”). Here we ask how such …

Video evidence is proliferating in the courtroom, outpacing the incremental advances in
policies governing its use. Psychological research on attention and perception indicates that …