Selective attention comprises essential infrastructural functions supporting cognition—
anticipating, prioritizing, selecting, routing, integrating, and preparing signals to guide …

Pupillary dynamics reflect effects of distinct and important operations of visual working
memory: encoding, maintenance, and prioritization. Here, we review how pupil size predicts …

In everyday tasks, our focus of attention shifts seamlessly between contents in the sensory
environment and internal memory representations. Yet, research has mainly considered …

Attention is one of the most thoroughly investigated psychological phenomena, yet
skepticism about attention is widespread: we do not know what it is, it is too many things …

For visual working memory to serve upcoming behavior, it is crucial that we prepare for the
potential use of working-memory contents ahead of time. Recent studies have demonstrated …

The relation between attention and memory has long been deemed important for
understanding cognition, and it was heavily researched even in the first experimental …

Attention has been regarded as the 'gatekeeper'controlling what information gets selected
into working memory. However, a new perspective has emerged with the discovery of …

The ability to store information about the past to dynamically predict and prepare for the
future is among the most fundamental tasks the brain performs. To date, the problems of …

Besides controlling eye movements, the brain's oculomotor system has been implicated in
the control of covert spatial attention and the rehearsal of spatial information in working …

Flexible action selection requires cognitive control mechanisms capable of map** the
same inputs to different output actions depending on the context. From a neural state-space …