Which is my body and how do I distinguish it from the bodies of others, or from objects in the
surrounding environment? The perception of our own body and more particularly our sense …

In many everyday situations, our senses are bombarded by many different unisensory
signals at any given time. To gain the most veridical, and least variable, estimate of …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

The ability to use cues from multiple senses in concert is a fundamental aspect of brain
function. It maximizes the brain's use of the information available to it at any given moment …

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 …

For thousands of years science philosophers have been impressed by how effectively the
senses work together to enhance the salience of biologically meaningful events. However …

Cognitive neuroscience set out to understand the neural mechanisms underlying cognition.
One central question is how oscillatory brain activity relates to cognitive processes. Up to …

Virtual reality (VR) is rapidly growing, with the potential to change the way we create and
consume content. In VR, users integrate multimodal sensory information they receive to …

Recent studies have shown that human perception of body ownership is highly malleable. A
well-known example is the rubber hand illusion (RHI) wherein ownership over a dummy …

Perceptual events derive their significance to an animal from their meaning about the world,
that is from the information they carry about their causes. The brain should thus be able to …