Research is reviewed demonstrating perceptual narrowing across a variety of domains. Research is also reviewed showing that the temporal window of perceptual narrowing can be extended and, in some cases, perceptual narrowing can be reversed. Research is also reviewed highlighting the neurophysiological correlates of perceptual narrowing as well as some of the individual neurophysiological diffe...

Two universal functional principles of Adaptive Resonance Theory simulate the brain code all biological learning and adaptive intelligence. Low level representations multisensory stimuli in their immediate environmental context are formed on basis bottom up activation under control top down matching rules that integrate high long term traces contextual configuration. These coding lead to establ...

Perceiving an external stimulus not only depends on the physical features of the stimulus, but also fundamentally on the current state of neuronal excitability, indexed by the power of ongoing alpha oscillations. Recent studies suggest that heightened excitability does not improve perceptual acuity, but biases observers to report the presence of a stimulus regardless of its physical presence. I...

The visual system exploits past experience at multiple timescales to resolve perceptual ambiguity in the retinal image. For example, perception of a bistable stimulus can be biased toward one interpretation over another when preceded by a brief presentation of a disambiguated version of the stimulus (positive priming) or through intermittent presentations of the ambiguous stimulus (stabilizatio...

Defenders of The Pure View – “Purists”, as I shall call them maintain that perception is pure presentation. That is, a perceptual experience has no commitments exceed what given or presented in the experience. argue seems unable to offer convincing account amodal completion. distinguish three Purist strategies for addressing completion, and suggest none very promising.

Eleanor Gibson essentially denned the domain of perceptual learning, which includes both improvement in perception as a function of experience and learning and acquisition of knowledge as a function of changes in perception. In her view, differentiation, as opposed to association, is the process underlying perceptual development as well as perceptual learning. She considered perceptual developm...