Research

Publications and work in progress

• Amodal completion in vision and audition. A relationship between perception and mental imagery (By Elvira Di Bona)
  
  Analysis, forthcoming

• Do sounds occupy a different temporal location than their sources? (by Elvira Di Bona)
  
  Locating a sound helps us locate its source (for example, I become aware that the smartphone I forgot somewhere is on the shelf because I hear the alarm coming from there). But it remains an open question whether the spatial location of the sound is, strictly speaking, coincident with that of its source, or whether sounds are just located close to their sources.

• Is the specious present informationally homogeneous? (by Daniele Cassaghi)
  
  The specious present is the limited temporal span we are aware of in our perception. But the properties we are presented with might come with a different degree of determinability in different parts of the specious present.

• How do memory and judgment support perceptual learning? (by Donald Oxtoby)
  
  Perception enables us to recognize people, places, and objects. But perception alone is not enough. Recognition involves a complex interaction of perception, memory, and judgment. For example, recognizing a face depends upon how familiar it feels, key features we recall, contextual information, and judging when these factors are sufficient for recognition.
  
  (To be continued...)