Selective attention, the ability to focus our cognitive resources on information relevant to our
goals, influences working memory (WM) performance. Indeed, attention and working …

Survival can depend on the ability to change a current course of action to respond to
potentially advantageous or threatening stimuli. This" reorienting" response involves the …

Covertly directing visual attention toward a spatial location in the absence of visual
stimulation enhances future visual processing at the attended position. The neuronal …

Visual search, a vital task for humans and animals, has also become a common and
important tool for studying many topics central to active vision and cognition ranging from …

The pressing need to better understand human brain organization is appreciated by all who
have labored to explain the uniqueness of human behavior in health and disease. Early …

How do we localise and identify target objects among distractors in visual scenes? The role
of selective attention in visual search has been studied for decades and the outlines of a …

Neural activity fluctuates dynamically with time, and these changes have been reported to
be of behavioral significance, despite occurring spontaneously. Through …

Electroencephalographic studies in humans have demonstrated that orienting of visual
attention induces a decrease in oscillatory α‐band activity (α‐desynchronization) over …

Memories are about the past, but they serve the future. Memory research often emphasizes
the former aspect: focusing on the functions that re-constitute (re-member) experience and …

Visual imagery is mediated via top-down activation of visual cortex. Similar to stimulus-
driven perception, the neural configurations associated with visual imagery are differentiated …