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

The capacity-limited human brain is constantly confronted with a huge amount of sensory
information. Selective attention is needed for biasing neural processing towards relevant …

Visual search is a fundamental element of human behavior and is predominantly studied in
a laboratory setting using static displays. However, real-life search is often an extended …

Physiological methods have identified a number of signatures of temporal prediction, a core
component of attention. While the underlying neural dynamics have been linked to activity …

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

Exploring the neural basis of age-related decline in working memory is vital in our aging
society. Previous electroencephalographic studies suggested that the contralateral delay …

Working memory enables us to retain past sensations in service of anticipated task
demands. How we prepare for anticipated task demands during working memory retention …

Time implicitly shapes cognition, but time is also explicitly represented, for instance, in the
form of durations. Parsimoniously, the brain could use the same mechanisms for implicit and …

Reduced timing abilities have been reported in older adults and are associated with
pathological cognitive decline. However, time perception experiments often lack ecological …

Temporal expectations enable anticipatory brain states that prepare us for upcoming
perception and action. We investigated the purpose-dependent nature and consequences of …