Avoiding distraction by conspicuous but irrelevant stimuli is critical to accomplishing daily
tasks. Regions of prefrontal cortex control attention by enhancing the representation of task …

While numerous studies have explored the mechanisms of reward-based decisions (the
choice of action based on expected gain), few have asked how reward influences attention …

During visual search, it is important to reduce the interference of distracting objects in the
scene. The neuronal responses elicited by the search target stimulus are typically …

In complex visual scenes, linking related contour elements is important for object
recognition. This process, thought to be stimulus driven and hard wired, has substrates in …

We describe a stochastic accumulator model demonstrating that visual search performance
can be understood as a gated feedforward cascade from a salience map to multiple …

The notion of a saliency-based processing architecture underlying human vision is central to
a number of current theories of visual selective attention. On this view, focal-attention is …

The human visual system uses two parallel pathways for spatial processing and object
recognition. In contrast, computer vision systems tend to use a single feedforward pathway …

The marriage of cognitive neurophysiology and mathematical psychology to understand
decision-making has been exceptionally productive. This interdisciplinary area is based on …

The hypothesis that salient distractors in visual search are actively suppressed is supported
by the fact that these objects elicit PD components believed to be associated with inhibition …

In visual search attention can be directed towards items matching top-down goals, but this
must compete with factors such as salience that can capture attention. However, under some …