Intelligent behavior requires to act directed by goals despite competing action tendencies
triggered by stimuli in the environment. For eye movements, it has recently been discovered …

Warning stimuli preceding target stimuli for behaviour improve behavioural performance,
which is referred to as phasic alerting. Similar benefits occur due to preceding orienting cues …

Acting upon target stimuli from the environment becomes faster when the targets are
preceded by a warning (alerting) cue. Accordingly, alerting is often used to support action in …

Many tasks require one to search for and find important objects in the visual environment.
Visual search is strongly supported by cues indicating target objects to mechanisms of …

Successful behaviour requires that humans act promptly upon the ubiquitous rapid changes
in the environment. Prompt actions are supported by phasic alertness, the increased …

Ongoing actions are interrupted for a brief period of time whenever salient and expectancy-
discrepant stimuli (surprise stimuli) interfere with the present task set. By contrast, salient …

Research suggested the possibility that temporal cognition may be different in autistic
spectrum disorder (ASD). Although there are some empirical studies examining timing ability …

Human survival requires prompt perception and action to address relevant events in the
environment. For this, the brain has evolved a system that uses warning stimuli to elicit …

We can use information derived from passing time to anticipate an upcoming event. If time
before an event varies, responses towards this event become faster with increasing waiting …

Attention is the cognitive ability which allows us to select and preferentially process relevant
information in our environment. It relies on a balance between top-down and bottom-up …