Crowding, the inability to recognize objects in clutter, sets a fundamental limit on conscious
visual perception and object recognition throughout most of the visual field. Despite how …

All cortical and thalamic levels of sensory processing are subject to powerful top-down
influences, the sha** of lower-level processes by more complex information. New findings …

Overt exploration or sampling behaviors, such as whisking, sniffing, and saccadic eye
movements [1, 2], are often characterized by a rhythm. In addition, the electrophysiologically …

A letter in the peripheral visual field is much harder to identify in the presence of nearby
letters. This is “crowding.” Both crowding and ordinary masking are special cases of …

Alpha oscillations are ubiquitous in the brain, but their role in cortical processing remains a
matter of debate. Recently, evidence has begun to accumulate in support of a role for alpha …

Context Schizophrenia remains a highly disabling disorder, but the specific determinants
and pathways that lead to functional impairment are not well understood. It is not known …

For most multisensory events, observers perceive synchrony among the various senses
(vision, audition, touch), despite the naturally occurring lags in arrival and processing times …

Our visual system can process information at both conscious and unconscious levels.
Understanding the factors that control whether a stimulus reaches our awareness, and the …

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 …

In masking, a stimulus is rendered invisible through the presentation of a second stimulus
shortly after the first. Over the years, authors have typically explained masking by postulating …