In natural settings, the prospect of reward often influences the focus of our attention, but how
cognitive and motivational systems influence sensory cortex is not well understood. Also …

It is well established that auditory cortex is plastic on different time scales and that this
plasticity is driven by the reinforcement that is used to motivate subjects to learn or to …

Selective attention modulates sensory cortical activity. It remains unclear how auditory
cortical activity represents stimuli that differ behaviorally. We designed a cross-modality task …

Mounting evidence suggests that the role of sensory cortices in perceptual decision making
goes beyond the mere representation of the discriminative stimuli and additionally involves …

Choosing an action in response to visual cues relies on cognitive processes, such as
perception, evaluation, and prediction, which can modulate visual representations even at …

Reward associations are known to shape the brain's processing of visual stimuli, but
relatively less is known about how reward associations impact the processing of auditory …

Attentional capture by previously reward-associated stimuli has predominantly been
measured in the visual domain. Recently, behavioral studies of value-driven attention have …

The current study aimed to resolve some of the inconsistencies in the literature on which
mental processes affect auditory cortical activity. To this end, we studied auditory cortical …

Auditory attention theories suggest that humans are able to decompose the complex
acoustic input into separate auditory streams, which then compete for attentional resources …

Selective attention is necessary to sift through, form a coherent percept of, and make
behavioral decisions on the vast amount of information present in most sensory …