Sensory systems must continuously adapt to optimally encode stimuli encountered within the natural environment. The prevailing view is that such optimal coding comes at the cost of increased ambiguity ...

Adaptation is fundamental for perception. It allows us to see efficiently over a range of 10 orders of magnitude of luminance, to ignore otherwise annoying constant sensory stimuli (such as the taste ...

Sensory memories are stored for a few seconds at most. They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste. They are stored only for as long as the sense is being stimulated. They ...