Humans and animals have the ability to continually acquire, fine-tune, and transfer
knowledge and skills throughout their lifespan. This ability, referred to as lifelong learning, is …

The ability to use cues from multiple senses in concert is a fundamental aspect of brain
function. It maximizes the brain's use of the information available to it at any given moment …

The perception of flavor is perhaps the most multisensory of our everyday experiences. The
latest research by psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists increasingly reveals the …

An ever-growing literature has aimed to determine how individuals with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) differ from their typically developing (TD) peers on measures of multisensory …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

Depression is characterized by disturbed sleep and eating, a variety of other nonspecific
somatic symptoms, and significant somatic comorbidities. Why there is such close …

Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second
Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an …

Multisensory processes are fundamental in scaffolding perception, cognition, learning, and
behavior. How and when stimuli from different sensory modalities are integrated rather than …

There has been longstanding interest from both experimental psychologists and cognitive
neuroscientists in the potential modulatory role of various top–down factors on multisensory …

This article explores the notion that the brain is genetically endowed with an innate virtual
reality generator that–through experience-dependent plasticity–becomes a generative or …