Traditionally, perception and cognition have been considered distinct domains of psychological science. Perception was understood to be the raw data collector—our sensory touchpoint with the external ...

The Comparative Cognition and Perception Lab conducts research in animal cognition and perception. It studies a variety of topics including visual and auditory object perception, biosonar, tool use, ...

We will show how to combine large scale neural recordings and mechanistic neural network models to advance our conceptual understanding of how neural circuits mediate cognitive functions like ...

Humans know they exist, but how does "knowing" work? Despite all that's been learned about brain function and the bodily ...

Theories of cognition occupy a central place in the interests of philosophers of many traditions and of all periods. The proposed project focusses on a specific portion of a tradition that had ...

Cognitive penetration is the assumption that non-sensory factors influence sensory perception at the core level of sensory processing, thus generating or modifying the contents of perception. However, ...

Music plays an important role in everyday life. People use music to express their feelings, regulate their emotions, and interact with others. Research in this domain has shown that music can affect ...