Mental imagery: functional mechanisms and clinical applications

J Pearson, T Naselaris, EA Holmes… - Trends in cognitive …, 2015 - cell.com
Mental imagery research has weathered both disbelief of the phenomenon and inherent
methodological limitations. Here we review recent behavioral, brain imaging, and clinical …

The neural bases of multistable perception

P Sterzer, A Kleinschmidt, G Rees - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2009 - cell.com
Multistable perception is the spontaneous alternation between two or more perceptual states
that occurs when sensory information is ambiguous. Multistable phenomena permit …

Serial dependence in the perception of faces

A Liberman, J Fischer, D Whitney - Current biology, 2014 - cell.com
From moment to moment, we perceive objects in the world as continuous despite
fluctuations in their image properties due to factors like occlusion, visual noise, and eye …

Confirmation bias through selective overweighting of choice-consistent evidence

BC Talluri, AE Urai, K Tsetsos, M Usher, TH Donner - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
People's assessments of the state of the world often deviate systematically from the
information available to them [1]. Such biases can originate from people's own decisions …

[HTML][HTML] The functional impact of mental imagery on conscious perception

J Pearson, CWG Clifford, F Tong - Current Biology, 2008 - cell.com
Mental imagery has been proposed to contribute to a variety of high-level cognitive
functions, including memory encoding and retrieval, navigation, spatial planning, and even …

[HTML][HTML] Binocular vision

R Blake, H Wilson - Vision research, 2011 - Elsevier
This essay reviews major developments–empirical and theoretical–in the field of binocular
vision during the last 25years. We limit our survey primarily to work on human stereopsis …

[HTML][HTML] The 'laws' of binocular rivalry: 50 years of Levelt's propositions

JW Brascamp, PC Klink, WJM Levelt - Vision research, 2015 - Elsevier
It has been fifty years since Levelt's monograph On Binocular Rivalry (1965) was published,
but its four propositions that describe the relation between stimulus strength and the …

Multistable perception and the role of the frontoparietal cortex in perceptual inference

J Brascamp, P Sterzer, R Blake… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
A given pattern of optical stimulation can arise from countless possible real-world sources,
creating a dilemma for vision: What in the world actually gives rise to the current pattern …

Autonomous mechanism of internal choice estimate underlies decision inertia

R Akaishi, K Umeda, A Nagase, K Sakai - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Our choice is influenced by choices we made in the past, but the mechanism responsible for
the choice bias remains elusive. Here we show that the history-dependent choice bias can …

Delusions and the role of beliefs in perceptual inference

K Schmack, AGC De Castro, M Rothkirch… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Delusions are unfounded yet tenacious beliefs and a symptom of psychotic disorder.
Varying degrees of delusional ideation are also found in the healthy population. Here, we …