Selective attention, the ability to focus our cognitive resources on information relevant to our
goals, influences working memory (WM) performance. Indeed, attention and working …

Semantic memory refers to knowledge about people, objects, actions, relations, self, and
culture acquired through experience. The neural systems that store and retrieve this …

For more than 50 years, psychologists and neuroscientists have recognized the importance
of a working memory to coordinate processing when multiple goals are active and to guide …

Attention is a core property of all perceptual and cognitive operations. Given limited capacity
to process competing options, attentional mechanisms select, modulate, and sustain focus …

People believe they see emotion written on the faces of other people. In an instant, simple
facial actions are transformed into information about another's emotional state. The present …

Autistics often exhibit enhanced perceptual abilities when engaged in visual search, visual
discrimination, and embedded figure detection. In similar fashion, while performing a range …

Our environments are highly regular in terms of when and where objects appear relative to
each other. Statistical learning allows us to extract and represent these regularities, but how …

Visual working memory and visual attention are intimately related, such that working
memory encoding and maintenance reflects actively sustained attention to a limited number …

Sensory processing is strongly influenced by prior expectations. Valid expectations have
been shown to lead to improvements in perception as well as in the quality of sensory …

Working memory is one of the most important topics of research in cognitive psychology. The
cognitive revolution that introduced the computer metaphor to describe human cognitive …