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Our experience of the world arises from the continuous interplay between external stimuli and the embodied mechanisms that shape how we perceive it. Shifting our gaze alters what we see; shifting our focus changes our mental processes. While we are typically aware of such voluntary changes and their immediate effects, other influences operate automatically and outside awareness yet may still modulate our subjective experience. One such influ ...

A central question in cognitive science concerns how neural processes influence and interact with visual perception. Over the past two decades, a provocative hypothesis has emerged suggesting that perception and attention operate in a rhythmic fashion—characterized by approximately 7–10 brief, alternating episodes of high and low perceptual efficiency per second. This rhythmic framework posits that ongoing brain oscillations may directly und ...