According to the action-specific perception account, people perceive the environment in
terms of their ability to act in it. For example, softball players who are hitting better see the …

This Mini‐Review summarizes a wide range of sex differences in the human visual system,
with a primary focus on sex differences in visual perception and its neural basis. We …

What determines what we see? In contrast to the traditional “modular” understanding of
perception, according to which visual processing is encapsulated from higher-level …

A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of
functional diversity in brain regions and networks. The computer analogy of the mind has …

We propose a new conceptualization of pain by incorporating advancements made by
phenomenologists and cognitive scientists. The biomedical understanding of pain is …

A tidal wave of recent research purports to have discovered that higher-level states such as
moods, action capabilities, and categorical knowledge can literally and directly affect how …

Our bodies are the most intimately familiar objects we encounter in our perceptual
environment. Virtual reality provides a unique method to allow us to experience having a …

In this chapter, we present and provide empirical support for an embodied approach to
visual perception. We propose that visual information is scaled by the perceiver's phenotype …

To date, research on the disturbed experience of body size in Anorexia Nervosa (AN) mainly
focused on the conscious perceptual level (ie body image). Here we investigated whether …

A chief goal of perception is to help us navigate our environment. According to a rich and
ambitious theory of spatial perception, the visual system achieves this goal not by aiming to …