The ability to sustain internal representations of the sensory environment beyond immediate
perception is a fundamental requirement of cognitive processing. In recent years, debates …

Sensory information encoded by humans and other organisms is generally presumed to be
as accurate as their biological limitations allow. However, perhaps counterintuitively …

Perceptual biases are widely regarded as offering a window into the neural computations
underlying perception. To understand these biases, previous work has proposed a number …

Neurons throughout the brain modulate their firing rate lawfully in response to sensory input.
Theories of neural computation posit that these modulations reflect the outcome of a …

A central question in neuroscience is how sensory inputs are transformed into percepts. At
this point, it is clear that this process is strongly influenced by prior knowledge of the sensory …

Humans differentially weight different stimuli in averaging tasks, which has been interpreted
as reflecting encoding bias. We examine the alternative hypothesis that stimuli are encoded …

Perception, in theoretical neuroscience, has been modeled as the encoding of external
stimuli into internal signals, which are then decoded. The Bayesian mean is an important …

Bayesian inference provides an elegant theoretical framework for understanding the
characteristic biases and discrimination thresholds in visual speed perception. However, the …

Although the Bayesian paradigm is an important benchmark in studies of human inference,
the extent to which it provides a useful framework to account for human behavior remains …

It has generally been presumed that sensory information encoded by a nervous system
should be as accurate as its biological limitations allow. However, perhaps counter …