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 ...

A new study finds that people hear familiar words as louder than nonsense words, even when both are equally loud. The results ...

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 ...

Schopenhauer’s account of sense perception contains an acute critique of Kant’s theory of cognition. His analysis of the role of the understanding in perception may be closer to Kant’s than he ...

Autistic individuals tend to perceive and process the world around them differently to neurotypicals. For example, autistics may have a lower tendency to attribute mental states to others, read their ...

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, ...

A new study reveals that cognitive ability, not just hearing, plays a key role in how well people process speech in noisy ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of ...