Our brains are constantly adapting to changes in our visual environment. Neural adaptation
exerts a persistent influence on the activity of sensory neurons and our perceptual …

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

Nullius in verba ('trust no one'), chosen as the motto of the Royal Society in 1660, implies
that independently verifiable observations—rather than authoritative claims—are a defining …

Background Sequential effects of environmental stimuli are ubiquitous in most behavioral
tasks involving magnitude estimation, memory, decision making, and emotion. The human …

Humans and other animals can learn and exploit repeating patterns that occur within their
environments. These learned patterns can be used to form expectations about future …

Perceptual decisions should depend on sensory evidence. However, such decisions are
also influenced by past choices and outcomes. These choice history biases may reflect …

This book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a
crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many …

Binary classification, an act of sorting items into two classes by setting a boundary, is biased
by recent history. One common form of such bias is repulsive bias, a tendency to sort an item …

Background Impairments in working memory (WM) have been well documented in people
with schizophrenia (PSZ). However, these quantitative WM impairments can often be …

Listening in complex sound environments requires rapid segregation of different sound
sources, eg, having a conversation with multiple speakers or other environmental sounds …