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 …

Binocular rivalry occurs when the eyes are presented with different stimuli and subjective
perception alternates between them. Though recent years have seen a number of models of …

This book argues that there is a joint in nature between seeing and thinking, perception, and
cognition. Perception is constitutively iconic, nonconceptual, and nonpropositional, whereas …

People's motivational states--their wishes and preferences--influence their processing of
visual stimuli. In 5 studies, participants shown an ambiguous figure (eg, one that could be …

Is there consciousness in machines? Or in animals? What happens to consciousness when
we are asleep, or in vegetative state? These are just a few examples of the many questions …

During binocular rivalry, conflicting monocular images compete for access to consciousness
in a stochastic, dynamical fashion. Recent human neuroimaging and psychophysical studies …

The distinction between perception and cognition figures centrally in many philosophical
debates, including debates about the justificatory role of perceptual experience, the …

Multistable perception is the spontaneous alternation between two or more perceptual states
that occurs when sensory information is ambiguous. Multistable phenomena permit …

Mental imagery has been proposed to contribute to a variety of high-level cognitive
functions, including memory encoding and retrieval, navigation, spatial planning, and even …

This essay reviews major developments–empirical and theoretical–in the field of binocular
vision during the last 25years. We limit our survey primarily to work on human stereopsis …