Conscious perception and attention are difficult to study, partly because their relation to each
other is not fully understood. Rather than conceiving and studying them in isolation from …

Expectations are known to greatly affect our experience of the world. A growing theory in
computational neuroscience is that perception can be successfully described using …

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim
that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that …

Lighting has been used to enhance emotion and appeal of characters for centuries, from
paintings in the Renaissance to the modern-day digital arts. In VFX and animation studios …

A central puzzle in vision science is how perceptions that are routinely at odds with physical
measurements of real world properties can arise from neural responses that nonetheless …

Visual perception relies on stored information and environmental associations to arrive at a
determinate representation of the world. This opens up the disturbing possibility that our …

Moving and interacting with the environment require a reference for orientation and a scale
for calibration in space and time. There is a wide variety of environmental clues and …

To understand the key image features that we use to infer the glossiness of materials, we
analyzed the pictorial shortcuts used by 17th century painters to imitate the optical …

How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the
inner workings of the visual system. In The Visual World of Shadows, Roberto Casati and …

Sensory information is inherently ambiguous. The brain disambiguates this information by
anticipating or predicting the sensory environment based on prior knowledge. Pellicano and …