Outcomes of actions, in the form of rewards and punishments, are known to shape behavior. For example, an action followed by reward will be more readily elicited on subsequent encounters with the same ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We used an electrophysiological measure of selective stimulus processing (the steady-state visual evoked potential, SSVEP) to investigate ...

The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology ...

We all have an intuitive understanding of what it means to pay attention to a particular visual scene or a conversation, and that it must be somehow related to our conscious awareness—but what exactly ...

Action real-time strategy video games such as World of Warcraft, Age of Empires, and Total War are played by millions. These games, which can be won through strategic planning, selective attention, ...

The motion aftereffect, sometimes referred to as the "waterfall illusion," is one of the oldest visual illusions ever discovered, dating as far back as Aristotle. When we are exposed to a continuously ...