Orienting of spatial attention is a family of phylogenetically old mechanisms developed to
select information for further processing. Information can be selected via top-down or …

The pressing need to better understand human brain organization is appreciated by all who
have labored to explain the uniqueness of human behavior in health and disease. Early …

A dorsal frontoparietal network, including regions in intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and frontal eye
field (FEF), has been hypothesized to control the allocation of spatial attention to …

It is well established that preparatory attention improves processing of task-relevant stimuli.
Although it is often more important to ignore task-irrelevant stimuli, comparatively little is …

We review a series of studies exploring distractor suppression. It is often assumed that
preparatory distractor suppression is controlled via top-down mechanisms of attention akin …

Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to study brain
networks associated with both normal and pathological cognitive functions. The objective of …

Language production and spatial attention are the most salient lateralized cerebral
functions, and their complementary specialization has been observed in the majority of the …

Given the limited processing capabilities of the sensory system, it is essential that attended
information is gated to downstream areas, whereas unattended information is blocked …

Lateralization in the desynchronization of anticipatory occipitoparietal alpha (8–12 Hz)
oscillations has been implicated in the allocation of selective visuospatial attention. Previous …

This review examines findings from functional neuroimaging studies of speech recognition
in noise to provide a neural systems level explanation for the effort and fatigue that can be …