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 …

Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles
of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming …

Sensory responses and behavior are strongly shaped by stimulus history. For example,
perceptual reports are sometimes biased toward previously viewed stimuli (serial …

Humans are good at performing visual tasks, but experimental measurements have
revealed substantial biases in the perception of basic visual attributes. An appealing …

Adaptive behavior in a complex, dynamic, and multisensory world poses some of the most
fundamental computational challenges for the brain, notably inference, decision-making …

Perception of a stimulus can be characterized by two fundamental psychophysical
measures: how well the stimulus can be discriminated from similar ones (discrimination …

The significance of social situations is commonly context-embedded. Although the role of
context has been extensively studied in basic sensory processing or simple stimulus …

In Consciousness We Trust is a synthesis of Hakwan Lau's 20-year research programme
exploring the neuroscience of consciousness. Discussing studies from his own laboratory …

Human perceptual decisions can be repelled away from (repulsive adaptation) or attracted
towards recent visual experience (attractive serial dependence). It is currently unclear …

How an object is perceived depends on the temporal context in which it is encountered.
Sensory signals in the brain also depend on temporal context, a phenomenon often referred …