Attention is the gate through which sensory information enters our conscious experiences.
Oftentimes, patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) complain of concentration …

There has been a great increase in literature concerned with the effects of a variety of mental
training regimes that generally fall within what might be called contemplative practices, and …

Human perceptual decisions are often described as optimal. Critics of this view have argued
that claims of optimality are overly flexible and lack explanatory power. Meanwhile …

This review focuses on covert attention and how it alters early vision. I explain why attention
is considered a selective process, the constructs of covert attention, spatial endogenous and …

Active inference provides a simple and neurobiologically plausible account of how action
and perception are coupled in producing (Bayes) optimal behaviour. This can be seen most …

Does attention alter appearance? This critical issue, debated for over a century, remains
unsettled. From psychophysical evidence that covert attention affects early vision—it …

Conscious perception and attention are difficult to study, partly because their relation to each
other is not fully understood. Rather than conceiving and studying them in isolation from …

Applied Attention Theory, Second Edition provides details concerning the relevance of all
aspects of attention to the world beyond the laboratory. Topic application areas include the …

Although it is increasingly accepted that temporal expectation can modulate early perceptual
processing, the underlying neural computations remain unknown. In the present study, we …

Highlights•Covert attention improves sensory processing in many visual tasks.•Covert
attention also alters the appearance of visual information.•Many spatial and temporal …