The human body shapes how we perceive and interact with the environment, with body size serving as a boundary for defining potential actions, hereby enlightening research on foundation agents.

The neurotransmitter noradrenaline selectively modulates metacognition, the conscious insight into one's performance, but does not alter perceptual decision making, revealing that different neuromodulators affect different stages of a decision making process.

A novel deep-learning-based computational method using object recognition to quantify visual context in naturalistic, multimodal stimuli demonstrates that a concept's perceived abstractness or concreteness dynamically depends on its visual context.

It is possible to account for efficient facial expression recognition without having to invoke a mechanism of motor simulation, even in very sensitive and challenging tasks.

A combination of human imaging and brain stimulation techniques show that the somatosensory cortex is essential to prosocial decision making, by transforming observed pain in accurate perception of others' distress.

Explicit judgments of agency incorporate uncertainty by reflecting first-order measures of a noisy signal, but they do not correspond to second-order metacognitive measures of the noise in a signal.

Psychophysics experiments and EEG recordings reveal that people's performance in detecting unexpected changes in complex auditory scenes can be modeled as a process of sensory evidence accumulation.

Zebrafish implement a stochastic recursive algorithm during prey capture that reflects an implicit physical model of the world.

The perception of time is influenced by movement environments, with slower movements associated with shorter perceived time intervals.

Anterior insular cortex activity predicts how well we attend to our bodily signals, while lesions to this brain region disrupt this ability.