The anterior insular cortex (AIC) is implicated in a wide range of conditions and behaviours,
from bowel distension and orgasm, to cigarette craving and maternal love, to decision …

Multistable perception is the spontaneous alternation between two or more perceptual states
that occurs when sensory information is ambiguous. Multistable phenomena permit …

It is an old-standing debate in the field of speech communication to determine whether
speech perception involves auditory or multisensory representations and processing …

This special issue presents research concerning multistable perception in different sensory
modalities. Multistability occurs when a single physical stimulus produces alternations …

Auditory perception and cognition entails both low-level and high-level processes, which are
likely to interact with each other to create our rich conscious experience of soundscapes …

Repetition can boost memory and perception. However, repeating the same stimulus
several times in immediate succession also induces intriguing perceptual transformations …

Perceptual grouping of successive frequency components, namely, auditory streaming, is
essential for auditory scene analysis. Prolonged listening to an unchanging triplet-tone …

Identifying the neuronal basis of spontaneous changes in conscious experience in the
absence of changes in the external environment is a major challenge. Binocular rivalry, in …

Prominent theories highlight the importance of bodily perception for self-consciousness, but
it is currently not known whether this is based on interoceptive or exteroceptive signals or on …

Subjects presented with coherent auditory and visual streams generally fuse them into a
single percept. This results in enhanced intelligibility in noise, or in visual modification of the …