Researchers have long debated whether salient stimuli can involuntarily 'capture'visual
attention. We review here evidence for a recently discovered inhibitory mechanism that may …

During social interactions, people's eyes convey a wealth of information about their direction
of attention and their emotional and mental states. This review aims to provide a …

This article provides a neurobiological account of symptoms that have been called
'hysterical','psychogenic'or 'medically unexplained', which we will call functional motor and …

We suggested recently that attention can be understood as inferring the level of uncertainty
or precision during hierarchical perception. In this paper, we try to substantiate this claim …

A scheme for understanding the organization of human postural movements is developed in
the format of a position paper. The structural characteristics of the body and the geometry of …

Narrative, the creation of imaginative projects and experiences displayed in expressions of
movement and voice, is how human cooperative understanding grows. Human …

Our ability to focus attention on task-relevant information and ignore distractions is reflected
by differential enhancement and suppression of neural activity in sensory cortex (ie, top …

In consumer judgments of product designs, the numbers of additive and configural feature
effects are apt to differ between verbal and pictorial stimulus presentations. A study of …

Perception is the foundation of cognition and is fundamental to our beliefs and consequent
action planning. The Editorial (this issue) asks:“what mechanisms, if any, mediate between …

Expectancy has long been of interest to psychologists and recently has become the focus of
research in musical cognition. Four experiments are reported that investigated the formation …