As research on sensation and perception has grown more sophisticated during the last
century, new adaptive methodologies have been developed to increase efficiency and …

Approximately 10% of melanoma cases report a relative affected with melanoma, and a
positive family history is associated with an increased risk of develo** melanoma …

Some people hear voices that others do not, but only some of those people seek treatment.
Using a Pavlovian learning task, we induced conditioned hallucinations in four groups of …

In the social sciences it is common practice to test specific theoretically motivated research
hypotheses using formal statistical procedures. Typically, students in these disciplines are …

PsychoPy is an open-source software package for creating rich, dynamic experiments in
psychology, neuroscience and linguistics. Written by its creator, this book walks you through …

When designing experimental studies with human participants, experimenters must decide
how many trials each participant will complete, as well as how many participants to test …

Perception can be described as a process of inference, integrating bottom-up sensory inputs
and top-down expectations. However, it is unclear how this process is neurally implemented …

The effects of stress are frequently studied, yet its proximal causes remain unclear. Here we
demonstrate that subjective estimates of uncertainty predict the dynamics of subjective and …

Visual metrics can play an important role in the evaluation of novel lighting, rendering, and
imaging algorithms. Unfortunately, current metrics only work well for narrow intensity ranges …

The psychometric function describes how an experimental variable, such as stimulus
strength, influences the behaviour of an observer. Estimation of psychometric functions from …