How to account for the power that art holds over us? Why do artworks touch us deeply,
consoling, transforming or invigorating us in the process? In this paper, we argue that an …

Current theories propose that our sense of curiosity is determined by the learning progress
or information gain that our cognitive system expects to make. However, few studies have …

Academic Abstract The motto of the conspiracist,“Do your own research,” may seem
ludicrous to scientists. Indeed, it is often dismissed as a mere rhetorical device that …

We used a perceptual closure task with Mooney images as stimuli to record eye‐movement
patterns in response to the same degraded image before and after perceptual learning in 21 …

Human visual experience usually provides ample opportunity to accumulate knowledge
about events unfolding in the environment. In typical scene perception experiments …

Existing research shows that the order in which evidence arrives can bias its evaluation and
the resulting decision in favor of information encountered early on. We used eye-tracking to …

Humans sample visual information by making eye movements towards different parts of their
surroundings. Understanding what guides this sampling process is an important goal of …

Perception is an active process emerging from the interaction between incoming bottom-up
sensory inputs and projected top-down internal priors. Priors are generally formed after …

We used a perceptual closure task with Mooney images as stimuli to record eye-movement
patterns in response to the same degraded image before and after perceptual learning in 21 …