Despite the impressive complexity and processing power of the human brain, it is severely
capacity limited. Behavioral research has highlighted three major bottlenecks of information …

Attention allows us to monitor objects or regions of visual space and select information from
them for report or storage. Classical theories of attention assumed a single focus of selection …

Attentional effort relates to the allocation of limited-capacity attentional resources to meet
current task demands and involves the activation of top-down attentional systems in the …

Evidence for a dichotomy between the planning of an action and its on-line control in
humans is reviewed. This evidence suggests that planning and control each serve a …

Problems in linking representation and perceived things in the world are discussed in light of
the role played by a preconceptual indexing mechanism that functions to identify, reidentify …

Self-recognition has been demonstrated by a select number of primate species and is often
used as an index of self-awareness. Whether a specialized neural mechanism for self-face …

This book is a succinct introduction to the orienting of attention. Richard Wright and
Lawrence Ward describe the covert orienting literature clearly and concisely, illustrating it …

The traditional view on the core functions of the cerebellum consists of the regulation of
motor coordination, balance and motor speech. However, during the past decades results …

Human observers are capable of tracking multiple objects among identical distractors based
only on their spatiotemporal information. Since the first report of this ability in the seminal …

Higher cognitive functions such as attention have been difficult to model in genetically
tractable organisms. In humans, attention-distracting stimuli interfere with trace but not delay …