Rising from its contemplative and spiritual traditions, the science of meditation has seen
huge growth over the last 30 years. This chapter reviews the classifications …

Introduction 3. What is meant by" oscillatory synchrony"? 4. Oscillatory synchrony and visual
binding 5. Oscillatory synchrony and attention 6. Oscillatory synchrony, learning and …

When subjects monitor a single location, visual target detection depends on the pre-target
phase of an∼ 8 Hz brain rhythm [1, 2]. When multiple locations are monitored, performance …

Despite decades of research, effects of different types of meditation on
electroencephalographic (EEG) activity are still being defined. We compared practitioners of …

To what extent does what we consciously see depend on where we attend to? Psychologists
have long stressed the tight relationship between visual awareness and spatial attention at …

Attention regulates the flood of sensory information into a manageable stream, and so
understanding how attention is controlled is central to understanding cognition. Competing …

Attention is a core cognitive mechanism that allows the brain to allocate limited resources
depending on current task demands. A number of frontal and posterior parietal cortical …

Abstract High frequency (30–70 Hz) gamma band oscillations in the human electro-
encephalogram (EEG) are thought to reflect perceptual and cognitive processes. It is …

Attention supports the allocation of resources to relevant locations and objects in a scene.
Under most conditions, several stimuli compete for neural representation. Attention biases …

We suggest that working memory (WM) performance can be conceptualized as the interplay
of low-level feature binding processes and top-down control, relating to posterior and frontal …