Topic: auditory perception

How does our brain generate consciousness, that is, the subjective experience of what it is like to see face or hear a sound? Do we become aware of a stimulus during early sensory processing or only later when information is shared in a wide-spread fronto-parietal network? Neural correlates of consciousness are typically identified by comparing brain activity when a constant stimulus (e.g., a face) is perceived versus not perceived. However, in most previous experiments, conscious perception was systematically confounded with post-perceptual processes such as decision-making and report. In thi

One of the most important questions in psychology and neuroscience is understanding how the outside world maps to internal representations. Classical psychophysics approaches to this problem have a number of limitations: they mostly study low dimensional perpetual spaces, and are constrained in the number and diversity of participants and experiments. As ecologically valid perception is rich, high dimensional, contextual, and culturally dependent, these impediments severely bias our understanding of perceptual representations. Recent technological advances—the emergence of so-called “Virtual L