Illusions

We highlight the latest research on body perception and self-consciousness, but argue that despite these achievements, central… (More)

Feelings of familiarity are not direct products of memory. Although prior experience of a stimulus can produce a feeling of… (More)

The pattern of local image velocities on the retina encodes important environmental information. Although humans are generally… (More)

Psychological beliefs such as optimism, personal control, and a sense of meaning are known to be protective of mental health. Are… (More)

Neuropsychological studies prompted the theory that the primate visual system might be organized into two parallel pathways, one… (More)

The study of heuristics and biases in judgement has been criticized in several publications by G. Gigerenzer, who argues that… (More)

BACKGROUND When we reach out to pick up an object, not only do we direct our moving limb towards the location of the object, but… (More)

S. E. Taylor and J. D. Brown's (1988) position that mentally healthy people exhibit positive illusions raises a dilemma: How do… (More)

Most so-called “errors” in probabilistic reasoning are in fact not violations of probability theory. Examples of such “errors… (More)

Part I of this paper describes a model for the parallel development and adult coding of neural feature detectors. It shows how… (More)