Consciousness
You can recognize a strawberry’s color and say “red.” How does that processing relate to the way red appears to you?
Conscious experience
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Dreaming
A sleeping mind can build vivid worlds. Do those experiences perform a function, reflect other useful processes, or do both?
Perceptual binding
Vision assigns colors, shapes, and movements to objects. How do distributed neural representations support those assignments without mixing features from different objects?
Sound–touch synesthesia
For some people, sounds consistently evoke localized touch sensations. What creates that unusually strong link between hearing and touch?
Binocular rivalry
When the eyes receive incompatible images, perception can alternate between them. How do eye and pattern competition produce those switches?
Aphantasia
Some people cannot voluntarily picture a scene. Which neural differences explain lifelong absence of visual imagery?
Spontaneous thought
Thoughts arise and change direction without a new instruction. Which processes initiate and switch these self-generated episodes?
Motion-induced blindness
A dot can disappear from view while it remains on the screen. A moving pattern around it changes whether it reaches awareness.
Hypnotic suggestion
A suggestion can change how an arm feels, how an action seems to happen, or what someone perceives. The mechanisms differ across people and suggestions.