Meditation can be conceptualized as a family of complex emotional and attentional
regulatory training regimes developed for various ends, including the cultivation of well …

Under conditions of rapid serial visual presentation, subjects display a reduced ability to
report the second of two targets (Target2; T2) in a stream of distractors if it appearswithin200 …

An essential guide to designing, conducting, and analyzing event-related potential (ERP)
experiments, completely updated for this edition. The event-related potential (ERP) …

Research on attention has evolved dramatically in recent years. There are now many new
ways of studying how we are able to select some aspects for processing, whilst ignoring …

The information processing capacity of the human mind is limited, as is evidenced by the so-
called “attentional-blink” deficit: When two targets (T1 and T2) embedded in a rapid stream …

Our brain does not process incoming sensory stimuli mechanistically. Instead the current
brain state modulates our reaction to a stimulus. This modulation can be investigated by …

When two masked targets (T1 and T2) are presented within approximately 500 ms of each
other, subjects are often unable to report the second of the two targets (T2) accurately, even …

Is there consciousness in machines? Or in animals? What happens to consciousness when
we are asleep, or in vegetative state? These are just a few examples of the many questions …

ABsrRAcr According to cognitive models, executive attention is required when tasks involve
planning, error detection, novelty, difffcult processing, or conflict. These are situations in …

When an observer detects a target in a rapid stream of visual stimuli, there is a brief period of
time during which the detection of subsequent targets is impaired. In this study, event-related …