Traditionally, perception and cognition have been considered distinct domains of psychological science. Perception was understood to be the raw data collector—our sensory touchpoint with the external ...

Autistic individuals tend to perceive and process the world around them differently to neurotypicals. For example, autistics may have a lower tendency to attribute mental states to others, read their ...

The workshop featured invited presentations and discussions to explore the state of the science on perception and cognition as it applies to how individuals trust and make sense of information. An ...

We will show how to combine large scale neural recordings and mechanistic neural network models to advance our conceptual understanding of how neural circuits mediate cognitive functions like ...

Music plays an important role in everyday life. People use music to express their feelings, regulate their emotions, and interact with others. Research in this domain has shown that music can affect ...

Cognitive penetration is the assumption that non-sensory factors influence sensory perception at the core level of sensory processing, thus generating or modifying the contents of perception. However, ...

In first-of-their-kind observations in the human brain, an international team of researchers has revealed two well-known neurochemicals - dopamine and serotonin - are at work at sub-second speeds to ...

Getting older brings certain expectations, from gray hair and wrinkles to more bouts of forgetfulness. While these beliefs may seem harmless, whether a person views these changes in a positive or ...