Sensory systems continuously mold themselves to the widely varying contexts in which they
must operate. Studies of these adaptations have played a long and central role in vision …

The idea that visual coding and perception are shaped by experience and adjust to changes
in the environment or the observer is universally recognized as a cornerstone of visual …

Animals depend on fast and reliable detection of novel stimuli in their environment. Neurons
in multiple sensory areas respond more strongly to novel in comparison to familiar stimuli …

Anomalous trichromacy is a common form of congenital color deficiency resulting from a
genetic alteration in the photopigments of the eye's light receptors. The changes reduce …

Millions of people will soon be spending hours each day relying on cameras and screens to
show them the surrounding world. Apple, Meta, and other companies are mass-producing …

To maintain perceptual coherence, the brain corrects for discrepancies between the senses.
If, for example, lights are consistently offset from sounds, representations of auditory space …

Ocular dominance plasticity beyond the critical period has been demonstrated in adult
humans in recent investigations of short-term monocular deprivation (MD). To our …

Augmented reality (AR) has developed rapidly since its conception less than 30 years ago
and is now a hot topic for both consumers and scientists. Although much attention has been …

The appearance of a face can be strongly affected by adaptation to faces seen previously. A
number of studies have examined the time course of these aftereffects, but the integration …

Whether and how the balance between plasticity and stability varies across the brain is an
important open question. Within a processing hierarchy, it is thought that plasticity is …