Perceptual decisions are derived from the combination of priors and sensorial input. While
priors are broadly understood to reflect experience/expertise developed over one's lifetime …

Humans use socially relevant stimuli to guide perceptual processing of the surrounding
environment, with emotional stimuli receiving preferential attention due to their social …

During visual perception, the brain must combine its predictions about what is to be
perceived with incoming relevant information. The present study investigated how this …

Humans are constantly exposed to a rich tapestry of visual information in a potentially
changing environment. To cope with the computational burden this engenders, our …

Face-processing timing differences may underlie visual social attention differences between
autistic and non-autistic people, and males and females. This study investigates the timing of …

Although humans are considered to be face experts, there is a well-established reliable
variation in the degree to which neurotypical individuals are able to learn and recognise …

Artificially created human faces play an increasingly important role in our digital world.
However, the so-called uncanny valley effect may cause people to perceive highly, yet not …

Predictive coding theories assert that perceptual inference is a hierarchical process of belief
updating, wherein the onset of unexpected sensory data causes so-called prediction error …

Cognitive models of social anxiety propose that socially anxious individuals engage in
excessive self-focusing attention when entering a social situation. In the present study …

This work contained three neuroimaging studies that collectively tested how implicit
expectations concerning the different visual attributes of simple objects (eg, their colour …