Understanding how people rate their confidence is critical for the characterization of a wide
range of perceptual, memory, motor and cognitive processes. To enable the continued …

Perception allows us to extract information about regularities in the environment. Observers
can quickly determine summary statistics of a group of objects and detect outliers. The …

The Internet provides a convenient environment for data collection in psychology. Modern
Web programming languages, such as JavaScript or Flash (ActionScript), facilitate complex …

How we perceive, attend to, or remember the stimuli in our environment depends on our
preferences for them. Here we argue that this dependence is reciprocal: pleasures and …

Colors are rarely uniform, yet little is known about how people represent color distributions.
We introduce a new method for studying color ensembles based on intertrial learning in …

Humans infer motion direction from noisy sensory signals. We hypothesize that to make
these inferences more precise, the visual system computes motion direction not only from …

We recently demonstrated that observers are capable of encoding not only summary statistics,
such as mean and variance of stimulus ensembles, but also the shape of the ensembles. …

… The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research,
authorship, and/or publication of this article: Andrey Chetverikov was supported by Russian …

Humans have remarkable abilities to construct a stable visual world from continuously
changing input. There is increasing evidence that momentary visual input blends with previous …

Visual search tasks play a key role in theories of visual attention. But single-target search
tasks may provide only a snapshot of attentional orienting. Foraging tasks with multiple targets …