Many models of cognition and of neural computations posit the use and estimation of prior
stimulus statistics,,,: it has long been known that working memory and perception are …

Human perceptual decisions are often described as optimal. Critics of this view have argued
that claims of optimality are overly flexible and lack explanatory power. Meanwhile …

Individuals with autism and individuals with dyslexia both show reduced use of previous
sensory information (stimuli statistics) in perceptual tasks, even though these are very …

Categorization with basic color terms is an intuitive and universal aspect of color perception.
Yet research on visual working memory capacity has largely assumed that only continuous …

Since the discovery 50 years ago of the precisely ordered representation of the whiskers in
somatosensory cortex, the rodent tactile sensory system has been a fertile ground for the …

Serotonin has widespread, but computationally obscure, modulatory effects on learning and
cognition. Here, we studied the impact of optogenetic stimulation of dorsal raphe serotonin …

Predictable sensory stimuli do not evoke significant responses in a subset of cortical
excitatory neurons. Some of those neurons, however, change their activity upon mismatches …

There is accumulating evidence that prior knowledge about expectations plays an important
role in perception. The Bayesian framework is the standard computational approach to …

Recent studies suggest that a centro-parietal positivity (CPP) in the EEG signal tracks the
absolute (unsigned) strength of accumulated evidence for choices that require the …

The concept of toxic leadership has been widely investigated in diverse settings with most
contributors agreeing its impact on followers can have negative effects to the victim's well …