Ray Guillery made major contributions to our understanding of the development and
function of the brain. One of his principal conceptual insights, developed together with …

Attention facilitates behavior by enhancing perceptual sensitivity (sensory processing) and
choice bias (decisional weighting) for attended information. Whether distinct neural …

Selective attention produces systematic effects on neural states. It is unclear whether,
conversely, momentary fluctuations in neural states have behavioral significance for …

Neural mechanisms of attention are extensively studied in the neocortex; comparatively little
is known about how subcortical regions contribute to attention. The superior colliculus (SC) …

Planning a rapid eye movement (saccade) changes how we perceive our visual world. Even
before we move the eyes visual discrimination sensitivity improves at the impending target of …

Attention can be deployed in multiple forms and facilitates behavior by influencing
perceptual sensitivity and choice bias. Attention is also associated with a myriad of changes …

Attention can be directed endogenously, based on task-relevant goals, or captured
exogenously, by salient stimuli. While recent studies have shown that endogenous attention …

Successful behavior depends on the attentional state and other factors related to decision-
making, which may modulate neuronal activity differently. Here, we investigated whether …

In order to behave appropriately in a rapidly changing world, individuals must be able to
detect when changes occur in that environment. However, at any given moment, there are a …

Spatial probabilistic “Posner” cueing is widely employed in studies of endogenous spatial
attention. Such cueing guides attention by providing prior knowledge about the likely spatial …