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 …

This review focuses on covert attention and how it alters early vision. I explain why attention
is considered a selective process, the constructs of covert attention, spatial endogenous and …

Does attention alter appearance? This critical issue, debated for over a century, remains
unsettled. From psychophysical evidence that covert attention affects early vision—it …

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 …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

Can the phenomenal character of perceptual experience be altered by the states of one's
cognitive system, for example, one's thoughts or beliefs? If one thinks that this can happen …

Sensory-based therapies are increasingly used by occupational therapists and sometimes
by other types of therapists in treatment of children with developmental and behavioral …

The goal of perceptual systems is to allow organisms to adaptively respond to ecologically
relevant stimuli. Because all perceptual inputs are ambiguous, perception needs to rely on …

The Centered Mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both
reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness. Peter Carruthers …

Highlights•Covert attention improves sensory processing in many visual tasks.•Covert
attention also alters the appearance of visual information.•Many spatial and temporal …