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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

This new project adds a verbal AI system (a large language model) to probe deeper into perception. Its goal is to study how ...

Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

In first-of-their-kind observations in the human brain, an international team of researchers has revealed two well-known neurochemicals - dopamine and serotonin - are at work at sub-second speeds to ...

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 ...

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

I am currently working towards my B.S. in Psychology, with tracks in cognitive psychology and biopsychology. I am also pursuing a minor in Applied Cognitive Neuroscience and I will hopefully graduate ...

Scientists should use magic tricks to better understand animal intelligence and perception, argue a team of researchers in a new paper. The idea makes sense, particularly when humans and animals can ...