No sensory stimulus is an island unto itself; rather, it can only properly be interpreted in light
of the stimuli that surround it in space and time. This can result in entertaining illusions and …

To survive in a dynamic environment, an organism must be able to effectively learn, store,
and recall the expected benefits and costs of potential actions. The nature of the valuation …

Sensory responses and behavior are strongly shaped by stimulus history. For example,
perceptual reports are sometimes biased toward previously viewed stimuli (serial …

Human perceptual decisions can be repelled away from (repulsive adaptation) or attracted
towards recent visual experience (attractive serial dependence). It is currently unclear …

The nature of capacity limits for visual working memory has been the subject of an intense
debate that has relied on models that assume items are encoded independently. Here we …

Extensive electrophysiology studies have shown that many V1 simple cells have nonlinear
response properties to stimuli within their classical receptive field (CRF) and receive …

Adaptation is ubiquitous in sensory processing. Although sensory processing is hierarchical,
with neurons at higher levels exhibiting greater degrees of tuning complexity and invariance …

During visual stimulation, neurons in visual cortex often exhibit rhythmic and synchronous
firing in the gamma-frequency (30–90 Hz) band. Whether this phenomenon plays a …

Theoretical studies of mammalian cortex argue that efficient neural codes should be sparse.
However, theoretical and experimental studies have used different definitions of the term …

The tilt illusion is a paradigmatic example of contextual influences on perception. We
analyze it in terms of a neural population model for the perceptual organization of visual …