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Adam Reeves, Birgitta Dresp-Langley
The 18th-century Scottish ‘common sense’ philosopher Thomas Reid argued that perception can be distinguished on several dimensions from other categories of experience, such as sensation, illusion, hallucination, mental images, and what he called ‘fancy.’ We extend his approach to eleven mental categories, and discuss…
Teppo Felin, Jan Koenderink, Joachim I. Krueger
Seeing-perception and vision-is implicitly the fundamental building block of the literature on rationality and cognition. Herbert Simon and Daniel Kahneman’s arguments against the omniscience of economic agents-and the concept of bounded rationality-depend critically on a particular view of the nature of perception and…
James F. Peters, Arturo Tozzi, Sheela Ramanna
During the exploration of the surrounding environment, the brain links together external inputs, giving rise to perception of a persisting object. During imaginative processes, the same object can be recalled in mind even if it is out of sight. In this proof of concept study, Borsuk’s theory of shape and the…
Martin Drašar
This chapter discusses the intricacies of cybersecurity agents' perception. It addresses the complexity of perception and illuminates how perception is shaping and influencing the decision-making process. It then explores the necessary considerations when crafting the world representation and discusses the power and…
Arnon Cahen, Michela C. Tacca
As our primary mode of contact with the world, perception is the causal and informational foundation for our higher cognitive functions-it guides our thinking about and acting upon the world. It is therefore unsurprising that so much empirical and theoretical research is devoted to the study of the complex…
Konstantinos Moutoussis
One of the basic functions of the brain is connecting an animal to its environment. Evolution has developed several sensory systems for this purpose, each one using a different approach to give the agent a “picture” of the physical world. Inevitably, the way that we perceive our environment via these systems has always…
Pantelis Leptourgos, Charles-Edouard Notredame, Marion Eck, Renaud Jardri + 1 more
When facing fully ambiguous images, the brain cannot commit to a single percept and instead switches between mutually exclusive interpretations every few seconds, a phenomenon known as bistable perception. Despite years of research, there is still no consensus on whether bistability, and perception in general, is…
Jake Quilty-Dunn
Thomas Reid is one of the primary early expositors of the “dual-component” theory of perception, according to which conscious perception constitutively involves a non-intentional sensation accompanied by a noninferential perceptual belief. In this paper, I will explore Reid's account of olfactory perception, and of…
Baingio Pinna, Daniele Porcheddu, Jurgis Skilters
In modern vision science, illusions are compelling phenomena useful as tools to explore vision under limiting psychophysical conditions. Illusions manifest at least two issues that challenge scientists. The first issue is related to the definition of illusion and to the complexity of the mismatch between the…
Ruth Rosenholtz
There is a fundamental puzzle in understanding our awareness of the visual world. On one hand, our subjective experience is one of a rich visual world, which we perceive effortlessly. However, when we actually test perception, observers know surprisingly little (Figure 1). A number of tasks, from search, through…
Marta Poyo Solanas, Minye Zhan, Beatrice de Gelder
Two major issues in consciousness research concern the measuring methods that determine perceptual unawareness and whether consciousness is a gradual or an ‘all-or-nothing’ phenomenon. This 7T fMRI study addresses both questions using a continuous flash suppression paradigm with an emotional recognition task (fear vs…
Romain Brette
Imagine a naive organism who does not know anything about the world. It can capture signals through its sensors and it can make actions. What kind of knowledge about the world is accessible to the organism? This situation is analog to that of a physicist trying to understand the world through observations and…
Catherine Read, Agnes Szokolszky
Ecological Psychology and Enactivism both challenge representationist cognitive science, but the two approaches have only begun to engage in dialogue. Further conceptual clarification is required in which differences are as important as common ground. This paper enters the dialogue by focusing on important differences.…
Zakaria Djebbara, Thomas Parr, Karl Friston
The perceptual experience of architecture is enacted by the sensory and motor system. When we act, we change the perceived environment according to a set of expectations that depend on our body and the built environment. The continuous process of collecting sensory information is thus based on bodily affordances.…
Nasim Nematzadeh, David Powers, Trent Lewis
Why does our visual system fail to reconstruct reality, when we look at certain patterns? Where do Geometrical illusions start to emerge in the visual pathway? How far should we take computational models of vision with the same visual ability to detect illusions as we do? This study addresses these questions, by…
Paul Linton
Since Kepler and Descartes in the early-1600s, vision science has been committed to a triangulation model of stereo vision. But in the early-1800s, we realized that disparities are responsible for stereo vision. And we have spent the past 200 years trying to shoe-horn disparities back into the triangulation account.…
Ergün Akleman, Bekir Tevfik Akgün, Adil Alpkoçak
Perception for a Foreground Object in Front of Backgrounds of Varying Luminance Authors: ['Ergün Akleman' 'Bekir Tevfik Akgün' 'Adil Alpkoçak'] In this article, we present a framework for developing context-sensitive luminance correction formulas that can produce constant luminance perception for foreground objects.…
Brian Odegaard, Min Yu Chang, Hakwan Lau, Sing-Hang Cheung
Do we perceive fine details in the visual periphery? Here, we propose that phenomenology in the visual periphery can be characterized by an inflated sense of perceptual capacity, as observers overestimate the quality of their perceptual inputs. Distinct from the well-known perceptual phenomenon of “filling-in” where…
Camila Zanette, Caitlin C. Bannan, Christopher I. Bayly, Josh Fass + 4 more
Molecular mechanics force fields define how the energy and forces of a molecular system are computed from its atomic positions, and enable the study of such systems through computational methods like molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. Despite progress toward automated force field parameterization…
Li Zhaoping
Our brain recognizes only a tiny fraction of sensory input, due to an information processing bottleneck. This blinds us to most visual inputs. Since we are blind to this blindness, only a recent framework highlights this bottleneck by formulating vision as mainly looking and seeing. Looking selects a tiny fraction of…
Heung-Yeol Lim, Inah Lee
The perirhinal cortex (PER) supports multimodal object recognition, but how multimodal information of objects is integrated within the PER remains unknown. Here, we recorded single units within the PER while rats performed a PER-dependent multimodal object-recognition task. In this task, audiovisual cues were…
Lampros Androutsos, Lorenzo Pallante, Agorakis Bompotas, Filip Stojceski + 8 more
Taste perception plays a pivotal role in guiding nutrient intake and aiding in the avoidance of potentially harmful substances through five basic tastes - sweet, bitter, umami, salty, and sour. Taste perception originates from molecular interactions in the oral cavity between taste receptors and chemical tastants.…
Camila Zanette, Caitlin C. Bannan, Christopher I. Bayly, Josh Fass + 4 more
Molecular mechanics force fields define how the energy and forces of a molecular system are computed from its atomic positions, and enable the study of such systems through computational methods like molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. Despite progress toward automated force field parameterization…
Vinicius Santana, Erbet Costa, Carine Rebello, Ana Mafalda Ribeiro + 2 more
This study presents an innovative framework for classifying and predicting odor intensity in perfumery, combining scientific machine learning with mechanistic modeling to enhance fragrance design precision. A probabilistic weight assignment is introduced, utilizing scent classifier outputs to determine the contribution…
Catriona L. Scrivener, Asad Malik, Jade Marsh, Michael Lindner + 1 more
Previous studies of change blindness have suggested a distinction between detection and localisation of changes in a visual scene. Using a simple paradigm with an array of coloured squares, the present study aimed to further investigate differences in event-related potentials (ERPs) between trials in which participants…
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This research delves into olfaction, a sensory modality that remains complex and inadequately understood. We aim to fill in two gaps in recent studies that attempted to use machine learning and deep learning approaches to predict human smell perception. The first one is that molecules are usually represented with…
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Machine olfaction—the artificial replication of the sense of smell—faces significant challenges due to the absence of large, standardized training datasets. Unlike vision, language, and audio models, which benefit from extensive corpora such as ImageNet, GLUE, and AudioSet, olfaction lacks scaled equivalents and…